29 Muhammad Ali Quotes on Confidence

Muhammad Ali quotes on confidence

2. While I'm talking to you I'm thinking up the greatest short poem of all time. This poem tells how it feels to be great as I am: Me - wheee!

4. I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

8. Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, For claiming to be King of the Jungle. For this fight, I've wrestled with alligators, I've tustled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And put thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. I have murdered a rock, I've injured a stone, and hospitalized a brick. I'm so bad, I make medicine sick. I'm so fast, man, I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet. When George Foreman meets me, He'll pay his debt. I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree. Wait till you see Muhammad Ali.

9. If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

10. You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

11. That's the only way you gonna save this sucker. He's doomed.

21. I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round

22. Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

34. 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.

36. Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.

41. Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

42. Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

48. He will be mine, in round nine, and I ain't lyin'. He must fall in eight, to prove that I am great. He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him in seven. If he'd be in a word of fix, I cut it to six. If he keeps talkin' jive, he will fall in five. If he makes me sore, I'll get him in round four, like before, with Archie moore, on the floor. If that don't do, we'll get him in two. If he runs, we can get him in one. If he don't wanna fight, he should keep his ugly self at home that night.

50. 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.

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

55. I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

59. I say it again, and I said it before. Archie Moore will fall in round four.

68. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

69. I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

73. If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

74. It's gonna be a a killa, a chilla, and a thrilla when I get that gorilla in Manila.

76. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

77. It's not bragging if you can back it up.

78. Joe comes out smokin', and I gonna be jokin'. I be packin' and pokin', pouring water on his smokin'. This might shock and amaze ya, but I will destroy Joe Frazier. Some people say you better watch Joe Frazier, he is always strong I said tell them to drive then roll on.

80. My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far.

92. Superman don't need no seat belt.

96. This time Norton will see. Im truly the most, and all this time he is been cheasin' a ghost. There are two things, are hard to hit and see, that's a spokie ghost and Muhammad Ali.

97. To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

104. When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.