Muhammad Ali born on 17-January 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States and passed away on 3-June 2016, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, was an American professional boxer and activist. His height was 1.91 m. By Religious faith he was as Muslim. Muhammad Ali was man of wisdom. He has said many motivational and inspirational quotes. Some quotes/sayings by him are as follows:
“I asked Allah for wealth, He gave me Islam.” – Muhammad Ali
“Everything you admire me for, everything I stand for I learned from Islam.” – Muhammad Ali
“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”- Muhammad Ali
“Stay strong, read Quran, Pray Salat, Praise Allah. This will help you.” – Muhammad Ali
“I think all the people should know the truth and come to recognize the truth because Islam is peace.” – Muhammad Ali
“I am a Muslim and I have been Muslim for 20 years. I am against killing, violence, and all Muslims are against it (killing, violence). I think People should know real truth about Islam” – Muhammad Ali
“Islam is against killing, murder, and the terrorists and the people doing it in the name of Islam are wrong.” – Muhammad Ali
“People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth.” – Muhammad Ali
“Don’t count the days make the days count.”- Muhammad Ali
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting me because they are the only ones that I count.” – Muhammad Ali
“No one starts out at the top. You have to work your way up.” – Muhammad Ali
“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” – Muhammad Ali
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on the earth.”- Muhammad Ali
“The day I met Islam, I found power within myself that no man could destroy or takeaway.” – Muhammad Ali
“It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” – Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
“I am just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.” – Muhammad Ali
“The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.”- Muhammad Ali
“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” – Muhammad Ali
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?” – Muhammad Ali
“The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God(Allah).” – Muhammad Ali
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
“The word ‘Islam’ means ‘peace.’ The word ‘Muslim’ means ‘one who surrenders to God.’ But the press makes us seem like haters.” – Muhammad Ali
“I cannot sit by and let the world think that Islam is a killing religion. It hurts me to see what radical people doing in the name of Islam. These radicals are doing things that God is against. Muslims don’t believe in violence.” – Muhammad Ali
“I’ve done my celebrating already. I said a prayer to Allah.” – Muhammad Ali
“I don’t smoke but keep a match box in my pocket. When my heart slips towards a sin, I burn a match stick and heat my palm. Then I say to myself: ‘Ali you cannot bear even this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hell.” – Muhammad Ali
“This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction. God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not number one, He is.” – Muhammad Ali
“I learned everything from Islam.” – Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.”- Muhammad Ali
“Stay strong. Read the Qur’an. Pray. Praise Allāh. This will help you.” – Muhammad Ali
“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” – Muhammad Ali
“They did what they thought was right, and I did what I thought was right.” – Muhammad Ali
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.” – Muhammad Ali
“I have One bodyguard. He has no eyes though He sees. He has no ears though He hears. He remembers everything with the aid of mind and memory. When He wishes to create a thing, He just orders it to be and it comes into existence, but this order does not convey the words which takes the tongue to form like our sound carries ears. He hears the secrets of those on the quite thoughts. He stops those whom, whose that? That’s God Allāh. He’s my bodyguard. He’s your bodyguard. He’s the Supreme, The Wise.” – Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was offered a star with his name on “Hollywood Walk of Fame” but he refused and said:
“I bear the name of our Beloved Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him), and it is impossible that I allow people to trample over his name.” – Muhammad Ali“So what I’m gonna do when I get out of boxing, is to get ready to meet God. We have one life, it will soon past; what we do for God is all that will last.” – Muhammad Ali
Refusal to go on the illegal war
“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people, Just take me to jail.” – Muhammad Ali“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” Muhammad Ali
A reporter asked Muhammad Ali.
“How do you feel about the suspected hijacker of 9/11 sharing your faith?”
Muhammad Ali answered”
“How do you feel about Hitler sharing yours?”“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so-called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.” -Muhammad Ali
“At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.” – Muhammad Ali
“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.” -Muhammad Ali
“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali
