“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.”
- Muhammad Ali
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
- Muhammad Ali
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won"
- Muhammad Ali
"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick"
- Muhammad Ali
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" - Muhammad Ali
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out;
it's the pebble in your shoe"
- Muhammad Ali
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth"
- Muhammad Ali
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted
thirty years of his life" - Muhammad Ali
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong"
- Muhammad Ali
"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."
- Muhammad Ali
"No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room" - Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Born: January 17, 1942 (age 72)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Rated at Heavyweight
Height: 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Reach 78 in (198 cm)
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights: 61
Wins: 56
Wins by KO: 37
Losses: 5
Draws: 0