About Muhammad Ali

American boxer and three-time world heavyweight champion. (1942-2016)

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• The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.Interview in Playboy (November 1975)
• I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.'On training, as quoted in Newsweek (September 25, 1978)
• 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.Statement after losing to Ken Norton (March 31, 1973)
• It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.As quoted in 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead (2004)
• If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.As quoted by George Plimpton, TIME 100 (June 14, 1999)
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Pre-fight chant (1964); the line was coined by his cornerman Drew Bundini Brown

More quotes on mindset

• To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Marie Curie
• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.Thomas Edison
• Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
• The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.Nikola Tesla

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