MUHAMMAD ALI "THE GREATEST" QUOTES PART I
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 11 Jun 2016
The man they called "The Greatest" will be laid to rest today. But Muhammad Ali's words live on. He was the most quoted athlete of all time. Here are some of his famous quotes:
I said I was "The Greatest," I never said I was the smartest!
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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.
America is the greatest country in the world.
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's
It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
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.
The word "Islam" means "peace." The word "Muslim" means "one who surrenders to God"' But the press makes us seem like haters.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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