Quotes from Muhammad Ali

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

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

Don't count the days, make the days count.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Impossible is nothing.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.