Top 100 Ali's Quotes
#1. Shahrazad Ali's The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman.
Bell Hooks
#2. Right now I don't want to think about Ali's future, the football games and parties she'll be going to without me, the people she'll meet that I won't even know. There's a
Laura Day
#3. 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
#4. Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.
Muhammad Ali
#5. Let's play a little game I like to call Cole's in Charge and Ali's Not.
Gena Showalter
#6. Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
Davis Miller
#7. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#8. Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
Robert Goulet
#9. Nate grinned and Ali's heart stopped.
God, the man was beautiful. His smile transformed his face the way dawn transforms the night.
Julie Ann Walker
#10. I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
Laila Ali
#11. Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#12. It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
Robert Goulet
#13. 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.
Muhammad Ali
#14. I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it. (On the change in his body that Ali's intense physical training required)
Will Smith
#15. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right, if he hits you once, you're asleep for the night
Muhammad Ali
#16. PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)
An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#18. I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future.
Ali Harris
#19. Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
Laila Ali
#20. When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
Tariq Ali
#21. You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.
Muhammad Ali
#22. His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'
What's that?'
Somewhat the opposite of elated.'
What's elated again?'
Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can feel, can't you? That's what I'm driving at. You don't ever wonder ... where feeling went?
Ali Shaw
#24. I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.
Mahershala Ali
#26. Since no two days are the same,we must be entering life's classroom when we wake up each morning
Kamil Ali
#27. Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
Muhammad Ali
#28. Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.
Chi-Ali
#29. Leonard had let them go alone with the young boy who Ali was now convinced, was a couple falafel's short of a picnic
L.R. Currell
#30. Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man.
Muhammad Ali
#31. We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
Muhammad Ali
#32. It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
Ali MacGraw
#33. I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
Saif Ali Khan
#34. They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#35. You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says 'look here, look here,' the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that's exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.
Ali Sheikh
#36. Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The
Chuck Klosterman
#37. DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUS
Due to exorcism based on each religion's practices
Kamil Ali
#38. I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
Ali MacGraw
#39. RACE INTERFACE
If God created man in his own image - What's his facial profile?
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#40. Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled.
Nouman Ali Khan
#41. If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#42. You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
but you should have seen him on the comeback night.
Muhammad Ali
#43. That's the problem with any 'simple truth' - it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Ali Sheikh
#44. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#46. As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together.
Ali Banisadr
#47. It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?
Ali Larter
#48. Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
Muhammad Ali
#49. Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#50. If you don't believe inside yourself that you can learn a lot, nobody's ever going to do that for you. Nobody's ever gonna give you self drive. Nobody's ever gonna give you self esteem. Nobody's ever gonna give you your self worth. You have to set it for yourself.
Brother Ali
#51. I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.
Ali Larter
#52. This move is called Qworegoys,
and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#53. You hold me very tight in under my clothes, and if there's a library anywhere near then someone just removed its roof, the shelves just flooded with the sun and all the old books just remembered what it means to be bound in skin and to have a spine.
Ali Smith
#54. What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual.
Zaman Ali
#55. If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.
Muhammad Ali
#58. Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life.
Ali Smith
#59. A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#61. In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!
Ali Liebegott
#62. There's something very comforting about watching a Hugh Grant movie. You know no one's head will be blown off in the first three minutes, no one will be tortured, and the worst thing that might happen is seeing a lanky Welshman eating mayonnaise in his underpants
Ali McNamara
#63. An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.
Monica Ali
#64. Every person who comes into this world must make the decision as to what type of person they want to be. Establishing yourself once is not enough. It's an ongoing, constant effort to separate yourself from who you feel that you are, and from who you want to become.
Ali Warren
#65. I understand you only too well, but Rachel's needs are no less important than your desire to be part of history. Find a balance. Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.
Tariq Ali
#66. I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie)
"It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I'm assuming he has, and show him what New York has to offer.
Ali Novak
#67. Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
Ali MacGraw
#68. Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.
Ali Smith
#69. Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
#70. I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.
Jeffrey Deitch
#71. The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
#72. And that made me realize this: Everyone's story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they
Ali Benjamin
#73. How are you feeling? Mrs Rock said.
I'm okay, George said. I think it's because I don't think I am.
You're okay because you don't think you're okay? Mrs Rock said.
Feeling, George said. I think I'm okay because I don't think I'm feeling.
Ali Smith
#74. The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.
Ali Smith
#75. Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
Muhammad Ali
#76. Islam's biggest enemy is the Quran. If people learn what is in that book, Islam will be finished.
Ali Sina
#77. 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
#78. Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
Muhammad Ali
#79. SELF HELP
Use the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself instead
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#80. POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT
FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#81. I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
Ali Smith
#82. What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence ... Islam is not a killer religion ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
Muhammad Ali
#83. There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
Ali Smith
#84. There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
Ali Vincent
#86. People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.
Ali Hewson
#87. Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
Muhammad Ali
#88. My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.
Laila Ali
#89. When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'
Ali MacGraw
#90. The whole point is, we can forget. It's important that we forget some things. Otherwise we'd go round the world carrying a hotload of stuff we just don't need.
Ali Smith
#91. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
#92. When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
Imtiaz Ali
#93. The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#94. There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
Muhammad Ali
#95. To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
Hazrat Ali R.A
#96. I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Muhammad Ali
#97. Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#98. I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example
Muhammad Ali
#100. It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
Muhammad Ali
