I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.


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My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al...
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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
I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!
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
There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI
My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al...
MAHERSHALA ALI
I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI
People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
MAHERSHALA ALI
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI