30 of Muhammad Ali’s best quotes

30 of Muhammad Ali’s best quotes

by Joseph Anthony
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Muhammad Ali, considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer, died late Friday night in a Phoenix-area hospital at 74 years old.


Here are a list of some of his best quotes (in no particular order):

1. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see. Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t.

2. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
3. “I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.”
4. “Donโ€™t count the days; make the days count.”
5. โ€œIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe itโ€”then I can achieve it.”

6. โ€œIt’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”
7. โ€œIt isnโ€™t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; itโ€™s the pebble in your shoe.โ€
8. โ€œIf you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.โ€
9. โ€œBraggin’ is when a person says something and canโ€™t do it. I do what I say.โ€
10. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”


11. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

12. “I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”
13. “I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.”

14. โ€œImpossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world theyโ€™ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. Itโ€™s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. Itโ€™s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.โ€
15. โ€œHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.โ€


16. “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.โ€
17. โ€œIf they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.โ€
18. “I shook up the world. Me! Whee!”

19. โ€œI hated every minute of training, but I said, โ€˜Donโ€™t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’โ€
20. โ€œAt home I am a nice guy: but I donโ€™t want the world to know. Humble people, Iโ€™ve found, donโ€™t get very far.โ€


21. “A man who has no imagination has no wings.”
22. “Heโ€™s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!”
23. “I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.”
24. โ€œIโ€™ve wrestled with alligators. Iโ€™ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.โ€
25. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”


26. โ€œItโ€™s not bragging if you can back it up.โ€
27. “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.”
28. “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
29. โ€œIโ€™m not the greatest, Iโ€™m the double greatest.โ€
30. โ€œLive everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.โ€

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