American Quotes

1,341 quotes in this collection

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain."

-- Muhammad Ali

"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win."

-- Muhammad Ali

"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

-- Muhammad Ali

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die everyday."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die everyday."

-- Muhammad Ali

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

-- Muhammad Ali

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

-- Muhammad Ali

"The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most."

-- Muhammad Ali

"The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most."

-- Muhammad Ali

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

-- Muhammad Ali

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."

-- Muhammad Ali

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

-- Muhammad Ali

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school."

-- Muhammad Ali

"But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

-- Muhammad Ali

"But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."

-- Muhammad Ali

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."

-- Muhammad Ali

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

-- Muhammad Ali