Muhammad Ali Motivational Quotations

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

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.

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

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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

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.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

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.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

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

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

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

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