I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.