Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali /ɑːˈliː/was an American Olympic and professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth17 January 1942
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
fame knows people uplift
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
injured last mean thrown thunder
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
american-athlete butterfly floating
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
calculate kept millions mind took
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
advice american-athlete learned
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
age-and-aging fifty man thirty twenty views wasted
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
appears brings deception doubtful peace truth
Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt.
dream reality destiny
It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.
fighting fit physical-strength
My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.
islamic destiny justice
The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.
boxers
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer
sometimes feels radar
Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.
epithet vietnamese viet-cong
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
bike
I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!