"I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster."
Read quote
7 likes
Quote collection
Muhammad Ali quotes (page 13 of 28)
544 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth."
Read quote
7 likes
"I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived"
Read quote
7 likes
"I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him"
Read quote
7 likes
"Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest."
Read quote
7 likes
"I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages"
Read quote
7 likes
"Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike."
Read quote
7 likes
"The world’s champ should be pretty like me!"
Read quote
7 likes
"Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace."
Read quote
7 likes
"In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart."
Read quote
7 likes
"Who's gonna dare to be great?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
Read quote
7 likes
"I'm the most recognized 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."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy."
Read quote
7 likes
"When my title was taken away boxing died."
Read quote
7 likes
"I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me"
Read quote
7 likes
"Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."
Read quote
7 likes
"The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed."
Read quote
7 likes
"Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay."
Read quote
7 likes