Muhammad Ali Quotes Part 1The people make me fight harder than I should have," said Clay. "When they booed 5 minutes after Creek's win and I was the next American in the ring I knew I had to leave no doubts. "I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood." The Foreman fight, Ali said, "will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale." "I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept." "I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail." "Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee." "Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form" "I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali." "If you can't get to the Superdome, watch it at home," he says. "They get four satellites to bounce it to 77 nations. I need four satellites, I'm so bad. I'm bigger than the Super Bowl, bigger than the Kentucky Derby, bigger than the World Series. It's gonna be a September to remember, and you can say you saw me in person, the greatest of all time, free of charge!" "Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." "Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life." "He's too ugly to be the champ!" No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. "I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them." "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life" "People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing." "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up" "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe "I'm a baaaadd man!" "Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest." "Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish" "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up."
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."
"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."
"I done wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, Only last week I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, hospitalised a brick, I’m so mean I make medicine sick."
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. "If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up." "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." "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on." "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself" | 