Quotes from Muhammad Ali

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

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

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.