Quotes from Muhammad Ali

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

I don't trust anyone who's nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.

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

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

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

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.

When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

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. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

Impossible is nothing.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and to be close to God. I'm not perfect. I know that I still have things to work out, and I'm working on them. There are certain things I have done that I am not proud of, especially when they caused pain to others. I ask God for forgiveness.

When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer.

Each time I thought I had achieved my life's purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

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

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.

I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do.