Ali quotes – Wisdom from the Legend

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

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

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.

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

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.

Don’t give up. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If someone says it can’t be done, it’s a reflection of their limitations, not yours.

Ali quotes – Wisdom from the Legend part 2

I shook up the world! Me! Whee!

I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.

I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail.

I’m the king of the world! I’m pretty! I’m a bad man! I shook up the world! I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

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

What keeps me going is goals.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

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

I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

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

At home, I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

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

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

A man who has no imagination has no wings.

A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never achieve anything in life.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.

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.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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.

I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

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

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

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.