Quotes from Muhammad Ali

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

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

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

Life is so, so short. The Bible says it's like a vapor.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

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.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

I want to be the first black man on the moon

There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.