Muhammad Ali Man Quotations

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

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

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

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land...We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man.