Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
MenuI ain’t never liked violence. – Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes
My business is hurting people. – Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. – Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes
You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid. – Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Ain’t no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman’s behind!
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don’t ask how. Hitch him up.
I’m retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.
Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.
Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.
I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.
Superman don’t need no seatbelt.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet. – on playing golf
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Only the nose knows where the nose goes when the doors close.
I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God – and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?
Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I’m not fighting one man. I’m fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of ’em, here is one man they couldn’t defeat, couldn’t conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t!
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths.
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
I’m so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom and I was in bed before the room was dark.
I’m the king of the world, I am the greatest, I’m Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I’m king of the world, I’m pretty, I’m pretty, I’m a baaaad man, you heard me I’m a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he’s so great, I’m a make him fall in eight, I’m a baaad man, I’m king of the world! I’m 22 years old and ain’t gotta mark on my face, I’m pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
Joe’s gonna be smokin’ an’ I ain’t even jokin but I’ll be peckin’ and a pokin’ and I’ll pour water on that smokin’. Now this might astound and amaze ya but I will destroy Joe Frazier.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.’
It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Here I predict Sonny Liston’s dismemberment, I’ll hit him so hard, he’ll forget where October-November went.
My toughest fight was with my first wife, and she won every round.
It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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.
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room. – Muhammad Ali
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. – Bill Vaughn
On how to make the game more exciting – Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the center jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns. – Al McGuire
Fans never fall asleep at our games because they’re afraid they might get hit with a pass. – George Raveling
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly
I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. – Dave Barry
Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative. – Dan Frisby
The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long. – Jack Dolph (on basketball)
Even if you are on the right track… You’ll get run over if you just sit there! – Will Rogers
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. – Mike Ditka
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. – Walter Payton
If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
In the 8th winning you can’t hear the roar of the 9th. All you can do to hold yourself together, and trust. – Jim Abbott
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I’m done. – Tom Osborne
Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. – Vince Lombardi
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong
You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip. – Bud Wilkinson
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. – Arthur Ashe
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. – Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. – Venus Williams
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. – Althea Gibson
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. – Red Blaik
In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win. – Sam Huff
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. – Ferdinand Foch
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. – Vince Lombardi
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. – Sydney Smith
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer
Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. – Ron Blomberg
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” – George Orwell
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi
“I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” – George F. Will
“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.” – Anthony Starr
“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” – Steve Garvey
“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.” – Nick Seitz
