Muhammad Ali Quotes About Boxing
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
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I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
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It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
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He's too ugly to be the champ!
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!
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If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
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I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
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When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
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If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.
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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
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Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.
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The will must be stronger than the skill.
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
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