Muhammad Ali

Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

Hittin’ hard don’t mean nothing if you don’t find nothin’ to hit.

Muhammad Ali

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is ok.

Muhammad Ali

I can’t see what God’s plan is. I just know I’ve got to live with it.

Muhammad Ali

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I’ll go out, travel these countries, I’ll watch how their people live, and I learn.

Muhammad Ali

I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Muhammad Ali

I don’t know how many millions I’ll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

Muhammad Ali

I don’t pretend to be friendly, like most people do when they’re trying to get to the top. I am friendly.

Muhammad Ali

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

Muhammad Ali

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali