Top 99 Ali Boxing Quotes
#1. But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
Roone Arledge
#2. I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.
Shayne Ward
#3. My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
Lennie James
#4. Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
Muhammad Ali
#5. Will be a divine fight, a holy war ... Armageddon on a miniature scale.
Muhammad Ali
#6. If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
Muhammad Ali
#7. Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#9. Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena ... long before the lights come up.
Muhammad Ali
#10. If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
Muhammad Ali
#11. Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town
Muhammad Ali
#12. I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
Muhammad Ali
#13. 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.
Muhammad Ali
#14. I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
#15. I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.
Jeff Fenech
#16. You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.
Muhammad Ali
#17. I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages
Muhammad Ali
#18. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
Muhammad Ali
#19. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.
Muhammad Ali
#20. A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
Muhammad Ali
#21. I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
#23. But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.
Muhammad Ali
#24. If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
Chuck Wepner
#25. 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.
Muhammad Ali
#26. In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
George Foreman
#27. I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
Muhammad Ali
#28. Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.
Gerry Cooney
#29. People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammad Ali
#30. I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#31. I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
Muhammad Ali
#32. Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
#33. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#34. I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'
George Foreman
#35. I am the great test! a blackened shadow-boxing colossus jabjabbered, pounding his gloves against the wall. The heavyweight will be quillweight. Bantamweight, even. Ain't nobody can dethrone me, beyond my ken! he boasted,* sidling up to his shadow.
*Mad Ali?:
Julian Rios
#36. I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.
Dick Schaap
#37. I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.
Muhammad Ali
#38. I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.
Muhammad Ali
#39. Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form
Muhammad Ali
#40. Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish
Muhammad Ali
#41. So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.
Muhammad Ali
#42. I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
Laila Ali
#43. I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again
Muhammad Ali
#46. 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.
Muhammad Ali
#47. I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
Muhammad Ali
#48. Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
Muhammad Ali
#49. I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
Muhammad Ali
#50. Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.
Angelo Dundee
#51. I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
#52. I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
Muhammad Ali
#53. That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
Muhammad Ali
#54. Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Muhammad Ali
#55. I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#57. Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
Muhammad Ali
#58. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
#60. I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Muhammad Ali
#61. I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
Muhammad Ali
#62. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Muhammad Ali
#63. I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history
Muhammad Ali
#64. The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
Howard Cosell
#65. I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.
George Foreman
#66. I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
Muhammad Ali
#67. My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.
Ishmael Reed
#68. Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali
#69. The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
Muhammad Ali
#70. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali
#71. Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
Muhammad Ali
#72. Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
Muhammad Ali
#73. Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.
Muhammad Ali
#74. I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
Muhammad Ali
#75. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,
Muhammad Ali
#76. 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.
Muhammad Ali
#77. Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
#78. I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
Muhammad Ali
#79. A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em
Muhammad Ali
#80. If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Muhammad Ali
#81. 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
#82. I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
Laila Ali
#83. I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
Muhammad Ali
#84. If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
Muhammad Ali
#85. 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
#87. There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.
Roy Jones Jr.
#88. 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
#89. It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.
Muhammad Ali
#90. Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#91. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
Muhammad Ali
#92. You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.
Muhammad Ali
#93. Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.
Larry Holmes
#94. Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
Muhammad Ali
#95. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
Muhammad Ali
#96. You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.
Muhammad Ali
#97. I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
Muhammad Ali
#98. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
Muhammad Ali
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