Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali /ɑːˈliː/was an American Olympic and professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth17 January 1942
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful mean medicine
I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
nice home humble
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
boxing people wish
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
guarantees-that people generations
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
life growth bread
In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
gods-plan plans i-can
I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.
sports fighting greatness
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
men boxing people
People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
taken boxing titles
When my title was taken away boxing died.
boxing littles boxers
If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
greatest-victory life-is rise-above
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most
men faithful enemy
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
real careers boxing
During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
fighting men people
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