Quote

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.

Muhammad Ali

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
Activist
Author
Autobiographer
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Jr.
The Greatest
Find
Small
Live
Word
Men
Bigs
Exploration
World
Inspirational
Explore
Given
Attraction
Around
Thrown
Change
Easier
Power
Impossible

More quotes by Muhammad Ali

Image
That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
Muhammad Ali
Image
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
Muhammad Ali
Image
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
Muhammad Ali
Image
Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
Muhammad Ali
Image
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
Muhammad Ali
Image
You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.
Muhammad Ali
Image
In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.
Muhammad Ali
Image
That computer was made in Alabama
Muhammad Ali
Image
We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.
Muhammad Ali
Image
It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight
Muhammad Ali
Image
So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
Muhammad Ali
Image
We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
Muhammad Ali
Image
When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
Muhammad Ali
Image
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.
Muhammad Ali
Image
True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
Muhammad Ali