Quotes from Muhammad Ali

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

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

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?