Danh ngôn của Muhammad Ali (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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 wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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.
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.
I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.