Muhammad Ali

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

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

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

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

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t really learned anything.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Everything I do has a purpose, all of God's beings have a purpose. Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Impossible is nothing.

When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

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