Quotes from Muhammad Ali

You my opposer when I want FREEDOM, you my opposer when I want JUSTICE, you my opposer when I want EQUALITY, you won't even stand up for me in AMERICA for my religious beliefs, you want me to go somewhere & fight, and you won't even stand up for me at home. If I'm gonna die, I'll die right here fighting you. I don't care, put me in jail

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 last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Many fighters have lost to less skillful opponents who had the will to win, who were determined to keep going.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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

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

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.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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

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