“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?”
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
- Muhammad Ali
Courage
"Don’t count the days, make the days count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"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
Achievement
"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
Perseverance
"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
Perseverance
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity