Quotes by Muhammad Ali

"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."

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

"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last."

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

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

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

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

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