Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

Muhammad Ali

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

Muhammad Ali

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

Muhammad Ali

Who would have thought, when they came to the fight, that they'd witness a launchin' of a black satellite

Muhammad Ali

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

Muhammad Ali

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

Muhammad Ali

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Muhammad Ali

Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

Muhammad Ali

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

I am a focused person. I am a fighter.

Frank Herbert

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

Frank Herbert

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

George Grosz

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Greg Rusedski

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

Greg Mortenson

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

Graham Nelson

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and the mountain always leads.

Jim Bouton

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

Jim Brown

Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned.

Jim Brown

I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for.

Jim Butcher

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Jim Butcher

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Jean Alesi

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

Jean Anouilh

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jay-Z

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Jay Leno

General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. That's what I think he said - it was hard to hear him because he was being hustled out of the room to his cell in Guantanamo Bay.

Jay Leno

The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

Carly Fiorina

[Hillary] Clinton, we are not where we need to be in the fight against ISIS.

Carly Fiorina

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

Carly Fiorina

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Candice Patton

The thing that I love about The Flash and about superhero shows, in general, is that it's not about having superpowers that makes you a superhero. You don't have to be The Flash and have super speed to do the right thing. You can be a great reporter or you can be a cop, like Joe West, and still fight for the things that matter.

Burt Lancaster

You have to fight against being an antique