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Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk...
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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu...
DON KING
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA
I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA

More Muhammad Ali

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
MUHAMMAD ALI
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h...
MUHAMMAD ALI
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that su...
MUHAMMAD ALI
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
MUHAMMAD ALI
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The white man is destroying the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much d...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W...
MUHAMMAD ALI
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The...
MUHAMMAD ALI
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airpor...
MUHAMMAD ALI
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that y...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was th...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al...
MUHAMMAD ALI
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the...
MUHAMMAD ALI
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the...
MUHAMMAD ALI
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Oly...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beaut...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the r...
MUHAMMAD ALI
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI
America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
What keeps me going is goals.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public tak...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
MUHAMMAD ALI
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your li...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
MUHAMMAD ALI
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desir...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...
MUHAMMAD ALI
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
MUHAMMAD ALI
God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nam...
MUHAMMAD ALI
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Don't count the days, make the days count.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm a baaaadd man!!
MUHAMMAD ALI
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fig...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the nigh...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrend...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just a...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking less...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don'...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in place...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of fr...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of y...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a...
MUHAMMAD ALI
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my o...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Superman don't need no seat belt.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Paki...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].
MUHAMMAD ALI
Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no...
MUHAMMAD ALI
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of hi...
MUHAMMAD ALI
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on t...
MUHAMMAD ALI
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep convic...
MUHAMMAD ALI
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...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your lif...
MUHAMMAD ALI
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI
one of the greatest athletes of all time.
MUHAMMAD ALI
If a matter has been ruled on or issued by a decree and later is the object of doubt in the minds of...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
MUHAMMAD ALI
This may shockan amasia but I'm gonna beat Joe Frazier.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The one without dreams is the one without wings.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm so pretty I even smell pretty.
MUHAMMAD ALI
a fierce fighter and a man of peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI
And if God ever calls me to a holy war, I want Joe fighting beside me.
MUHAMMAD ALI
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will unde...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm always confident. My image is being confident. Why you trying to make it look like something new...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams Ñ they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
MUHAMMAD ALI
War on nations change maps. War on poverty maps change.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I want to get out with my greatness intact.
MUHAMMAD ALI
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get ve...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
MUHAMMAD ALI
All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI
My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his lif...
MUHAMMAD ALI
You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're s...
MUHAMMAD ALI
[Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali pour...
MUHAMMAD ALI
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen t...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception d...
MUHAMMAD ALI