Classic Boxing Quotes: Featuring Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali: “Boxing’s a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I’m presentable.” Muhammad Ali: "I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life." Muhammad Ali: "But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn’t know the answers. I don’t even know how to start after finding the answers. That’s all." Muhammad Ali: "So I didn’t pass. It was the army’s decision that they didn’t want me to go into the service. They’re the boss. I don’t want to say no whole lot about it. " Muhammad Ali: "The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?" Muhammad Ali: "The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, ‘Let’s go on over here.’ And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain’t going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me." Muhammad Ali: "I saw that streak in him when he told me, ‘Get the hell out of here or I’ll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me." Muhammad Ali: "I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with." Muhammad Ali: "I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
Muhammad Ali: "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali: "I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven."
Muhammad Ali: Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
Muhammad Ali: Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Anonymous: "My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still." Muhammad Ali: "I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free." Muhammad Ali: “If America were in a just war I’d volunteer for the front line. I’d do the shuffling and win the war.” Muhammad Ali: “It’ll be a killa, a chilla, a thrilla when I get the gorilla in Manila.” Speaking about Joe Frazier, prior to the Thrilla in Manila. Muhammad Ali: "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." Muhammad Ali: "I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability." | 