Tag: Muhammad Ali

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
– Muhammad Ali

“I’ll hit Liston with so many punches from so many angles he’ll think he’s surrounded.”

– Muhammad Ali

“I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.”

– 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’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”

– Muhammad Ali

“I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”

– Muhammad Ali

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

– Muhammad Ali

“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. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

― Muhammad Ali

“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.”

– Muhammad Ali

“I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count”.

– Muhammad Ali