Muhammad Ali on Stoicism Quotes

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

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

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

"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."

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

"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 when the match is even."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others."

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

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it."

"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."

"Live every day like it's your last because someday you're going to be right."

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

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

"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

"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."

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

"I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back."

"What keeps me going is goals."

"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."

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

"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."