About Muhammad Ali

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

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More from Muhammad Ali

• 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)
• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.As quoted in Jet (August 1992)
• 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 change

• All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.Robin Sharma
• It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.James Clear
• Awareness is the greatest agent for change.Eckhart Tolle
• Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be from this moment on.Hal Elrod
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.Abraham Lincoln
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson

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