Muhammad Ali Quotes

At home I am a nice guy - but I don`t want the world to know. Humble people, I`ve found, don`t get very far.

I won a gold medal representing the USA at the olympic games in 1960, but when I came home I still got treated like a nigger. There were restaurants I couldn`t get served in. Some people kept calling me `boy`.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I am an astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey were just jet pilots. I`m in a world of my own.

I`m gonna float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, George can`t hit what his eyes can`t see, now you see me, now you don`t, he thinks he will but I know he won`t.

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

I don`t admire nobody but Elvis Presley. He was the sweetest most humble and nicest man you`d ever meet.

On Henry Cooper, "If he talks some jive, I`ll knock him out in round five."

My toughest fight was my first wife.

You can`t hit what you can`t see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Silence is golden when you can`t think of a good answer.

When you`re as great as I am, it`s hard to be humble.

Champions aren`t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Sonny Liston is too ugly to be world heavyweight champion!.

After being rejected by the Vietnam draft the first time, because he failed the `intelligence` portion, Casius said, "I never said I was the smartest, I said I was the greatest".

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I`m soooooooooooooooooo pretty!!!

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

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I`ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

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.

It`s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.