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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 >>.
friendship best-friend true-friend
If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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!
christian believe moving
I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to beI'm free to be what I want.
rome champion gold
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
shut-up knows
Shut up, I know what I'm doing!