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Boxing Quotes

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

― Muhammad Ali

"I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK."

― Muhammad Ali

"I know I can learn to hit without getting hit."

― Muhammad Ali

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

― Muhammad Ali

"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."

― Muhammad Ali

"I have never heard anything that affected me like those words: ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.’"

― 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

"It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring."

― Muhammad Ali

"I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages."

― Muhammad Ali

"Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round."

― Muhammad Ali

"t's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

― Muhammad Ali

"His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see."

― Muhammad Ali

"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over — like the Kennedys down in Washington."

― Muhammad Ali

"When a fighter is beaten, everybody who believes in him is beaten too — his family, his friends, his children, the people who cheer him on, who give him their love, their hope, their pride."

― Muhammad Ali

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."

― Muhammad Ali

"It takes a lot out of a fighter to throw punches that land in thin air."

― Muhammad Ali