Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’"

- Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

- Muhammad Ali

"No cuentes los días, haz que los días cuenten."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don't count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

""He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.""

- Muhammad Ali

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t Count the Days, Make the Days Count."

- Muhammad Ali

"He Who is Not Courageous Enough to Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing in Life."

- Muhammad Ali

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Age is whatever you think it is, you are as old as you think you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"A man who has no imagination has no wings."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”"

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing in Life"

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologise."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."

- Muhammad Ali

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given without ever realizing the potential of what they could achieve."

- Muhammad Ali

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

- Muhammad Ali

"“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”"

- Muhammad Ali

""Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.""

- Muhammad Ali

"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

""It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.""

- Muhammad Ali

"Don't count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far."

- Muhammad Ali

"Everything I do now, I do to please Allah…Being a true Muslim is the most important thing in the world to me. It means more to me than being black or being American."

- Muhammad Ali

"Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner."

- Muhammad Ali

"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

- Muhammad Ali

"My principles are more important than the money or my title."

- Muhammad Ali

"I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the Day of Judgment, have God say to me, ‘Why did you do that?’ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m no leader; I’m a little, humble follower."

- Muhammad Ali

"Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists."

- Muhammad Ali

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m young, handsome, fast, pretty, and can’t possibly be beat!"

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve wrestled with alligators,  I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and 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!"

- Muhammad Ali

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m the greatest, I’m a bad man, and I’m pretty!"

- Muhammad Ali

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

- Muhammad Ali

"You lose nothing when you fight for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about."

- Muhammad Ali

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

- Muhammad Ali

"I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Inside or a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

- Muhammad Ali

"I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return."

- Muhammad Ali

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

- Muhammad Ali

"Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all."

- Muhammad Ali

"Silence is golden when you can’t think of an answer."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven."

- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat."

- Muhammad Ali

"Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw 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."

- Muhammad Ali

"The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years."

- Muhammad Ali

"The man with no imagination has no wings."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"What you're thinking is what you're becoming."

- Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life"

- Muhammad Ali

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about."

- Muhammad Ali

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

- Muhammad Ali

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"I am the greatest. I said that before I even knew I was."

- Muhammad Ali

"I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days; make the days count. Use this Thursday to make an impact."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of it [training]. But I said to myself, ‘Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.’"

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."

- Muhammad Ali

""Don’t count the days, make the days count.""

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’."

- Muhammad Ali

"Before I’d get in the ring, I’d have already won or lost it on the road. The real part is won or lost somewhere far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.""

- Muhammad Ali

""It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.""

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a big word."

- Muhammad Ali

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step"

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days, Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”"

- Muhammad Ali

"Children make you want to start life over."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days: Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how you win."

- Muhammad Ali

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

- Muhammad Ali

"The man who has no imagination has no wings"

- Muhammad Ali

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear out, it’s the pebble inside your shoe"

- Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks, will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

""If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.""

- Muhammad Ali

"There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it."

- Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you can conceive it and you can believe it then you can achieve it"

- Muhammad Ali

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

- Muhammad Ali

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

"I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be."

- Muhammad Ali

""Don’t count the days; make the days count.""

- Muhammad Ali

""Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.""

- Muhammad Ali

""What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.""

- Muhammad Ali

"You win from within every single day."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If you dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize."

- Muhammad Ali