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Mohammed Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) - born January 17, 1942, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. American professional boxer who competed in the heavy weight category. Champion of the XVII Summer Olympic Games in 1960 in the light heavyweight category. Absolute World Heavyweight Champion (1964-1966, 1974-1978).

Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Mohammed Ali

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as me.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
Hands work, eyes see. Fly like a butterfly, sorry like a bee.
I saw George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Not a single blow, except for the sun, should remain unanswered.
Worrying about past mistakes all the time is the worst mistake.
The more sincere you are, the more deceitful and hypocritical the world around you is.
When you're right, nobody remembers. And how wrong - no one will forget.
Enjoy your kids even when they don't behave the way you would like them to.
God will not place a burden on a man that he cannot bear.
Boxing is when many white people watch two black people beat each other up.
I am an astronaut in boxing. Joe Lewis and Dempsey are just pilots. I live in my own world.
I am not the greatest, I am doubly the greatest. Not only do I knock them out, I choose the round.
Silence is golden, but only when you can't think of a decent answer.
It's just a profession. The grass grows, the birds fly, the waves wash the sand, I hit people.
If you want to beat me, then you better wake up quickly and take your thoughts back.
Russia scares me - people on buses look like they are being taken to an electric chair.
The first time I felt spirituality in my life was when I entered this Muslim temple in Miami.
A person who looks at the world at 50 just like at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
The fight should last 13 seconds. 2 seconds for approach, 1 second for impact and 10 seconds for referee countdown.
I had nothing against any Vietcong. Neither Vietnamese ever called me "nigger."
There are two phenomena in the world that cannot be seen, let alone hit. This ghost and Mohammed Ali.
They don't become champions in gyms. The champion is born of what a person has inside - desires, dreams, goals.
I don’t have to be what others want to see me, and I’m not afraid to be what I would like to see myself.
I hated every minute of training, but I said to myself: "Don't leave, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
If you consider yourself big and strong, then tell me how tall you are, so that I know how much to move away when you fall.
I know that I have earned everything, while a lot of black people literally live in hell. Until they are free, I also cannot be free.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the switch in my hotel room and was in bed before it got dark in the room.
The rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in a dark closet and he will never crow. I saw the light and that's why I crow.
People don't value someone until they lose them. It's like with President Kennedy - there are no people like him and will never be. There will be no people like Elvis Presley. By the way, I was the Elvis of boxing.
My hardest fight is with Parkinson's. No, it doesn't hurt. It is hard to explain. I am definitely being tested: will I continue to pray, will I keep the faith? God tests all great people.
God, I suffered and suffered and suffered. It really hurts. It's time for a new life. I don't want to fight anymore. I've been doing this for 25 years. It changes a person. It changed me. I see it. I'm feeling it.
There is no person in the world who can deal with me. I am very fast. I am very smart. I am very handsome. In general, my image should be on postage stamps. This will be the only way to seal me.
Why do they have to make me put on my uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and throw bombs and bullets at swarthy people when the so-called Negro population in Louisville is treated like dogs?
I told you - to all my critics, I told you that I am the greatest champion ever since I beat Sonny Liston. I tell you today, I am still the greatest in history ... Never again say that I will fail. Never make me an underdog until I'm fifty.
Impossible - this is just a big word behind which little people are hiding. It is easier for them to live in the familiar world than to find the strength to change something. The impossible is not a fact. This is just an opinion. The impossible is not a sentence. It's a challenge. The impossible is a chance to prove yourself. Impossible is not forever. The impossible is possible.
I fought to win the world title so that I could go out and say what was on my mind. I wanted to go to unemployed people for whom drugs and poverty were a part of their daily life. I wanted to be a champion who is available to everyone. I hoped to inspire others to take control of their own destiny and live with pride and purpose.
Jail is a bad place. I was there for a week until they let us go for Christmas and it was terrible. You're locked up, you can't get out. Bad food and nothing to do. You look out the window at people and cars and everyone looks so free. Little things, like walking down the street or getting plenty of sleep, become unavailable. A person must be serious in his intentions in order to experience all this for five years, I am just such a person.
The doctor may tell you that if you feel tense, it is better to quit. It means that your doctor does not understand anything, because if you do not strain your muscles, you will not get the desired result. You have to run until everything turns outward. You have to run until your heart almost stops. You have to keep running even when your legs fail. You must run forward, and run forward, and only then will you achieve what you want.

37 of Ali's most immodest, funniest and most thoughtful sayings - one for every knockout of his professional career

1 - “I have already fought with an alligator, I have already fought with a whale, I have handcuffed with a zipper, thrown thunder in prison! This is bad! Just last week, I killed a rock, wounded a rock, sent a brick to the hospital. I am so stingy that I make medicine sick "

2 - “There is no living person who can whip (punish, spank, surpass) me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too handsome. I must be a postage stamp. This is the only way that I would ever be licked (touched) "

3 - "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room got dark."

4 - “I am a boxing astronaut. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just airplane pilots. I am in my own world "

5 - "If you have a dream that you beat me, you'd better wake up and apologize."

6 - “There are two things that are difficult to hit (hit) and see. This is a terrible ghost, and Muhammad Ali "

7 - “I am not the greatest, I am doubly the greatest. I not only knock them out, I choose the round. "

8 - "Boxing is a lot of white people watching two black men beat each other."

9 - “People do not understand (do not appreciate) what they have until it is gone (lost). Like President Kennedy, no one is like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like it. So is my friend Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing "

10- “I may have been the greatest boxer, but outside the ring I’m just like everyone else. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everyone. And one more thing. I’m still looking for the guy who stole my bike when I I was 12, I'm going to beat him! It was a good bike "

About Joe Fraser

11 - "Fraser is so ugly that he has to donate his face to the American Bureau of Wildlife"

12 - "Fraser is so ugly that when he cries, tears unfold and run down the back of his head."

13 - "It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila."

14 - “I always help bring out the best in the guys I fight, but Joe Fraser, I will tell the whole world right now, brings out the best in me. I want to tell you, God bless him. "

About George Foreman

15 - “I saw George Foreman fight with a shadow. And the shadow won "

16 - “Flutter like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands cannot hit what his eyes cannot see "

17 - “Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he can (see), but I know he won't (see)! "

18 - “Is that all you can, George? All that you can? " (Ali during the fight with Foreman)

About Floyd Patterson

19 - “Hey Floyd - I saw you! Someday I'm going to whip you! Don't forget that I am the greatest! "

20 - "I'll beat him so hard he'll need a shoe spoon to put on his hat."

About Sonny Liston

21 - “Sonny Liston is nothing. The person cannot speak. A person cannot fight. The person needs conversation lessons. The person needs boxing lessons. And since he's going to fight me, he needs falling lessons. "

22 - “I shook the world! I shook the world! "

23 - “Fool, for some reason I'm sure (I bet) you're scared to death yourself, just look in the mirror. You are an ugly bear! You have never fought with anyone other than homeless people and exes (boxers). Do you call yourself world champion? You are too old and slow to be a champion! "

24 - “Get up, sucker, and fight! Stand up and fight! " (To Ali Liston during their second fight) About Howard Kossell (commentator)

25 - “You always say that, Muhammad, you are not the same person as you were 10 years ago. Well, I asked your wife and she told me that you are not the same man as you were two years ago! "

About golf

26 - “I'm the best. I just haven't played yet "

About life

27 - "When you can whip any person in the world, you will never know the world (you will not know peace)"

28 - “Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Mohammed Ali! Free name. It means "beloved of God" - and I insist that people use it when people talk to me and about me. "

29 - “What's my name, fool? What is my name?" (Ali to Ernie Terrell, who refused to call him Muhammad Ali)

30 - "I know, I did it at a time when the masses of black people were captured by hell, but until they are free, I am not free."

31 - Why should they ask (make) me put on my uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and throw bombs and bullets at swarthy people while the so-called Negro population in Louisville is treated like dogs?

32 - “I had nothing against any Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me "nigga"

33 - "The man who looks at the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 wasted 30 years of his life."

34 - "Silence is golden when you do not know what to answer (you cannot think of a good answer)" 35 - "One day (one day) they will make the house in which I grew up a national shrine"

36 - “The rooster cries only when he sees the light. Place him in the dark and he will never scream. I saw the light and I scream "

37 - "It is difficult to be humble when you are as great as me"

The collection includes quotes from Muhammad Ali, the great American professional boxer:

I do not smoke, but I continue to carry the matchbox in my pocket. When my heart slips to sin, I light a match, bring it to my palm and then I say to myself: "Ali, you cannot bear this warmth, since you can bear the intolerable heat of Hell?"
I hated every minute of training, but I said to myself: "Don't leave, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
God will not place a burden on a man that he cannot bear.
I don't have to be who you want me to be. I am free to be who I want to be.

Boxing is when many white people watch two blacks beat each other.
It's the worst mistake to worry about past mistakes all the time.
I would have knocked him out with the first blow. There are rivals to whom he can bite off his ear, but at the same time there are rivals who can bite off his head. (about Tyson)
If you dream of becoming someone, you become one.
I saw George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Whatever your goal, you can achieve it if you only want to work hard.
It's just a profession. The grass grows, the birds fly, the waves wash the sand, I hit people.
When a person's mother dies, it really hurts. But over time, he gets used to it. That is life!
The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
When I joke, I usually tell the truth. Truth is the funniest thing in the world.
A person who has no imagination has no wings.
Comedy is a way to be serious while pretending to be funny. Joking is my way of telling the truth. There is no funnier joke in the world than the truth.
It's hard to be humble, being as great as me.
My hardest fight is with Parkinson's. No, it doesn't hurt. It is hard to explain. I am definitely being tested: will I continue to pray, will I keep the faith? God tests all great people.
You are hindered by the wrong mountains ahead, which you must climb, by a pebble in your boots.
Silence is golden, but only when you can't think of a decent answer.
The hardest fight I had to endure was with my first wife.
The wisdom is knowing when you cannot be wise.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Not a single blow, except for the sun, should remain unanswered!
Hands work, eyes see. Fly like a butterfly, sorry like a bee. Boxing motto
A bird that does not use its wings will not fly far. Our wings are our imaginations and those who do not use ...
Enjoy your kids even when they don't behave the way you would like them to.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names. But they all have water. So it is with religions. They are all named differently, but the truth is everywhere.
A bird that does not use its wings will not fly far. Our wings are our imagination and those who do not use it always stay in one place. Dream and fantasize, this is the only way you can soar freely through the endless world of possibilities.

Who would I like to meet? With the prophet Muhammad.
Impossible - this is just a big word behind which little people are hiding. It is easier for them to live in a familiar world than to find the strength to change something. The impossible is not a fact. This is just an opinion. The impossible is not a sentence. It's a challenge.
The most difficult fight is when you have to fight for happiness with laziness.
Silence is golden if you can't think of a good answer.
The sun always shines somewhere.
My toughest fight with Parkinson's. No, it doesn't hurt. It is hard to explain.
Someone who is not brave enough to take risks will achieve nothing in life.
My definition of evil is hostility.

Few people know, but Ali has been fighting for 32 years with Parkinson's disease. The three-time world heavyweight champion died with dignity and will forever remain in our hearts.

Muhammad Ali

My hardest fight is with Parkinson's. No, it doesn't hurt. It is hard to explain. I am definitely being tested: will I continue to pray, will I keep the faith? God tests all great people.

I only start counting squats after my legs start to hurt. Because that's the only thing worth counting. This is what will make you a champion.

The sun is always somewhere, let it shine.

Silence is gold. But only if you can't think of a good answer.

And for the heavyweight champion of the world, one woman may be enough.

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.

When George (Foreman) got the title back, it really hit me hard. I also wanted to return. But then morning came - it was time to go for a run. I went back to bed and said, "Okay, I'm still the greatest."

The fight is won or lost away from bystanders. This happens behind the front lines, in the gym, on the road. Long before I start dancing under these lights.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't behave the way you would like.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew who I was. I realized that if I said that, it was already enough to convince the rest of the world of this.

"Impossible" is just a word used by small people. People who want to live in peace and comfort that someone will give them. So say those who do not want to explore the power given to them in order to change it. "Impossible" is not a fact. This is an opinion. The impossible always has potential. "Impossible" is a temporary word. Nothing is impossible.

The greatest boxer, Mohammed Ali, could have turned 75 on January 17, 2017. He died on June 3, 2016, but it is believed that a person is alive as long as his memory is alive.

In memory of the greatest boxer in the world Sports bigmir) netprepared 17 of the best sayings of Muhammad Ali, which we will always remember.

1. Silence is golden, but only when you cannot think of a worthy answer.

2. Flutter like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

3. Impossible - this is just a big word behind which little people are hiding. It is easier for them to live in a familiar world than to find the strength to change something. The impossible is not a fact. This is just an opinion. The impossible is not a sentence. It's a challenge. The impossible is a chance to prove yourself. Impossible is not forever. The impossible is possible.

EPA / UPG

4. People do not value someone until they lose him. It's like with President Kennedy - there are no people like him and will never be. There will be no people like Elvis Presley. By the way, I was the Elvis of boxing.

5. A person who looks at the world at 50 the same way as at 20, wasted 30 years of his life.

6. When I joke, I usually tell the truth. Truth is the funniest thing in the world.

7. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the switch in my hotel room, and was in bed before it got dark.

EPA / UPG

8. Enjoy your children, even when they do not behave the way you would like.

9. If you have a dream that you are beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.

10. Why should they ask (force) me to put on my uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and throw bombs and bullets at swarthy people while the so-called Negro population in Louisville is treated like dogs?

EPA / UPG

11. You are hindered by the wrong mountains ahead, which you must climb, a pebble in your shoes is hindering you.

12. The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.

13. I hated every minute of training, but I said to myself: “Don't leave, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

14. As long as people have the opportunity to whip someone with a whip, there will be no peace on earth.

EPA / UPG

15. The rooster crows only when he sees the light. Put him in a dark closet and he will never crow. I saw the light and that's why I crow!

16. I may have been the greatest boxer, but outside the ring I am just like everyone else. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everyone. And one more thing. I'm still looking for the guy who stole my bike when I was 12, I'm going to beat him! It was a good bike.

17. It is difficult to be humble when you are as great as me.

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