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
Muhammad Ali quotes about
boxers
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer
epithet vietnamese viet-cong
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
kings real years
I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!
rome champion gold
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
rope
Stay away from the ropes
nice home thinking
Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.
cassius limbs cassius-clay
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
champion heavyweights world
It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman
proud my-family
I'm most proud of my family
hundred
I'd like to live to a hundred
brooding blunders
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder
nike wall office
I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
heavyweights world underwater
Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
lynching earthquakes america
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.