Powerful Quotes from Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.
Don’t count the days; make the days count.
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.
It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.
A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.
I shook up the world!
I don’t have to be what you want me to be.
I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.
I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
Live every day like it’s your last because someday you’re going to be right.
I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Powerful Quotes from Muhammad Ali part 2
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.
Impossible is nothing.
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something deep inside them.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
I’m the king of the world! I’m pretty! I’m a bad man! I shook up the world!
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
The only thing that matters is how we live our lives on the inside.
I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.
Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
I’m not the greatest, but I’m the best.
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.
If you dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologize.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
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.
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.
I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map-change.
