Muhammad Ali híres idézetei
Muhammad Ali Idézetek az emberekről
„A hit hiánya az, ami miatt az emberek félnek a kihívásoktól, és én hiszek magamban.”
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Egyéb idézetek
Eredeti: The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it, and I didn't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name, and I insist people using it when speaking to me and of me.
Muhammad Ali idézetek
„Akinek nincs fantáziája, szárnyai sincsenek.”
Egyéb idézetek
Eredeti: A man who has no imagination has no wings.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't. (1974; A George Foreman elleni meccs előtt mondta Ali.)
„Ahhoz, hogy legyőzzenek, előbb meg kell, hogy öljenek. De nem halok meg olyan könnyen.”
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: 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.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life. (1984)
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: 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 was really the greatest. (1964)
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: He’s [Sonny Liston] too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: I wrestled with an alligator, I tussled with a whale, I handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail, I'm bad man... Last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
„Boksz az, amikor sok fehér ember nézi, ahogy két fekete összeveri egymást.”
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Eredeti: Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
„Minden percét utáltam [az edzésnek].”
De azt mondtam magamnak 'Szenvedj most, és életed hátralevő részét éld bajnokként'.
I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Önmagáról és a bokszról
Muhammad Ali: Idézetek angolul
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
This is actually from Ali's autobiography "The Greatest". However, this was said by Don King to George Foreman.
Misattributed
“That's the only way you gonna save this sucker. He's doomed.”
Comment prior to the "Rumble in the Jungle" about George Foreman prior to the fight, when referee Clayton warned Ali that if he didn't stop talking he would stop the fight. (30 October 1974)
interview with Michael Parkinson (1974), quoted in Adam Lusher, " 'The white man is the devil' – what the Nation of Islam taught Muhammad Ali https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/muhammad-ali-nation-of-islam-michael-parkinson-interview-who-were-elijah-muhammad-a7066301.html", _The Independent_ (June 5, 2016)
Response to George Plimpton, question at the end of an interview: "What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?" - Interview (video) http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebu0OBa1pus
"The Silent Warrior", dedicated to Joe Frazier and his family, p. 112
The Soul of a Butterfly (2004)
“If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.”
As quoted in "Muhammad Ali" by George Plimpton in "The TIME 100" in TIME (14 June 1999) http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/ali01.html
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.”
Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round (July 1971)
"Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/muhammad-ali-hits-trump-misguided-murderers-sabotaging-islam-n477351 (9 December 2015).
