Quotes by Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Its not something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the meaning of friendship, you really havent learned anything.”

“Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

“If you even dream of beating me youd better wake up and apologize.”

“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.”

“Im not the greatest; Im the double greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round.”

“Its just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

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

“Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and hell never crow. I have seen the light and Im crowing.”

“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”

“Ill beat him so bad hell need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”

“Im the best. I just havent played yet.”

“No one knows what to say in the losers locker room.”

“What keeps me going is goals.”

“Ill be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.”

“Its not bragging if you can back it up.”

“I am America. I am the part you wont 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.”

“Superman dont need no seat belt.”

“I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.”