Muhammad Ali on Fitness Quotes

"Inside of a ring or out, there ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."

"I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek-turner."

"My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am."

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

"I figure I'll be the champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over."

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

"I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count. That's what makes you a champion."

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see."

"What keeps me going is goals."

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it."

"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."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision."

"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."

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win."

"I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done shackled lightning, thrown thunder in jail."

"A man who wins is a man who thinks he can."

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

"Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right."

"I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given."

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"I injured my jaw and I just kept going. You can't let the pain stop you."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."