A biography for Muhammad Alihasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's not bragging if you can back it up.”
“Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer”
“Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.”
“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
“If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.”
“It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.”
“It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.”
“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.”
“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”
“Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.”
“No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.”
“Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.”
“Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves”
“I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.”
“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
“Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“America is the greatest country in the world.”
“Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.”