Muhammad Ali Quotes

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

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

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

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

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

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

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.

There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

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

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.