39 quotes
American boxer (1942–2016)
“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.”
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."
on Discipline
"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you."
on Leadership
"Expect the best, prepare for the worst."
on Inspirational
"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."
on Courage
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
on Friendship
"My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality."
on Wisdom
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."
on Truth
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."
on Humor
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."
on Faith
"What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming."
on Life
"My principles are more important than the money or my title."
on Philosophy
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."
on Peace
"I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right."
"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it."
"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about."
on Activism
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."
"The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most."
on Values
