Muhammad Ali Quotes

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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

Archie's been living off the fat of the land. 'Cause you'll all go home after round four.

I am the man this poem’s about, I AM THE GREATEST!

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. ... Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.

I'm not gonna help nobody get something my negroes don't have. If I'm gonna die, I'll die now right here fighting you, if I'm gonna die. You my enemy. My enemies are white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home.