Quote

I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on 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
Thinking
Blow
Fool
Aeroplanes
Fear
Engine
Tell
Bomb
Stills
Engines
Still
Smooth
Right
Bombs
Really
Flight

More quotes by Muhammad Ali

Image
The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent
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
I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
Muhammad Ali
Image
They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
Muhammad Ali
Image
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
Muhammad Ali
Image
You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job
Muhammad Ali
Image
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
Muhammad Ali
Image
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
Muhammad Ali
Image
Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
Muhammad Ali
Image
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
Muhammad Ali
Image
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
Muhammad Ali