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“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
― Muhammad Ali

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
― Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

“The man with no imagination has no wings.”
― Muhammad Ali

“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
― Muhammad Ali

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”
― Muhammad Ali

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are”
― Muhammad Ali

“Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”
― Muhammad Ali

“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.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.”
― Muhammad Ali

“We can't be brave without fear.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.”
― Muhammad Ali

“When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.”
― Muhammad Ali

“If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.”
― Muhammad Ali

“You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and to be close to God. I'm not perfect. I know that I still have things to work out, and I'm working on them. There are certain things I have done that I am not proud of, especially when they caused pain to others. I ask God for forgiveness.”
― Muhammad Ali

“My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father... Shoot them for what? How do I got to go shoot them, poor little black people, little babies, children, and women? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
― Muhammad Ali

“We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Each time I thought I had achieved my life’s purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
― Muhammad Ali