I'm So Modest I Can Admit My Own Fault

Muhammad Ali, considered to exist the greatest heavyweight boxer, died late Friday night in a Phoenix-expanse hospital at 74 years old.

Hither is a listing of some of his best quotes (in no particular social club):

1. "Bladder like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes tin can't run across. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he volition, but I know he won't.

2. "Service to others is the rent you lot pay for your room here on earth."

3. "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I tin't possibly be beat."

4. "Don't count the days; make the days count."

5. "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe information technology—then I tin accomplish it." Jesse Jackson said this as early as 1983, according to the Associated Press, and Ali used it in his 2004 book.

half-dozen. "It's hard to be humble when you're every bit smashing as I am."

vii. "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that clothing you out; information technology's the pebble in your shoe."

8. "If yous even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

ix. "Braggin' is when a person says something and can't do it. I do what I say."

10. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

11. "Only a homo who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come upwards with the actress ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

12. "I'k and then mean, I make medicine sick."

13. "I should be a stamp postage. That's the simply way I'll always get licked."

xiv. "Incommunicable is just a big discussion thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they accept to change information technology. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It'southward a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Incommunicable is nothing."

fifteen. "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will reach goose egg in life."

16. "A man who views the globe the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

17. "If they tin make penicillin out of moldy breadstuff, they can sure make something out of you."

xviii. "I shook upward the world. Me! Whee!"

Appreciation: Muhammad Ali was a champion in and out of the boxing ring

19. "I hated every minute of training, just I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

20. "At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've establish, don't get very far."

21. "A human who has no imagination has no wings."

22. "He's (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the earth gnaw. The world champ should exist pretty like me!"

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

24. "I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail."

25. "Hating people considering of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the antisocial. It'southward merely plain wrong."

26. "It'due south not bragging if you tin back information technology upwards."

27. "I'g the most recognized and loved man that e'er lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were effectually, so people far away in the villages didn't know most them."

28. "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds wing, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

29. "I'chiliad not the greatest, I'm the double greatest."

30. "Alive everyday equally if it were your last because anytime y'all're going to exist correct."

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2016/06/03/muhammad-ali-best-quotes-boxing/85370850/

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