Muhammad Ali

I’m not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I’m a Muslim. I believe in Allah and peace. I don’t believe in wars or killing innocent people.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.

I am America. I am the part you won't 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.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye for an eye. I'm a man of God, but I'm also a man of war.

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

I've told you all, I'm a bad man. I'm the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and I'm the most recognized face on the planet.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I'm a Muslim and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm a black man in America. I want justice and equality. I want what's rightfully mine.

I'm going to show you how great I am!

I shook up the world! I shook up the world!

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.