Top 113 Quotes by Muhammad Ali

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

The white man is destroying the world.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.