Quotes from Muhammad Ali

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

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.

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

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.