Quotes from Muhammad Ali

Don't feel sorry for me.

At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't go very far.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

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

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