ALI: wit & wisdom

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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Muhammad Ali

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

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. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. - Muhammad Ali

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. - Muhammad Ali

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. - 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

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

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’. - Muhammad Ali

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

I am the greatest. - Muhammad Ali

Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong. - Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see. - Muhammad Ali

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. - Muhammad Ali

I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. - Muhammad Ali

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

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

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe. - Muhammad Ali

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. - Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. - Muhammad Ali

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. - Muhammad Ali

Don’t count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right. - Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Muhammad Ali