Muhammad Ali Quotes

Muhammad Ali Quotes, It was what set him apart from other fighters – Muhammad Ali’s razor sharp rhymes. His witty phrases usually taunted opponents and always lauded his own prowess.

As he turns 70, we take a look at some of his best quotes – some were comical, others inspirational, but all unforgettable.

He wrote his first rhyme aged 13, with the line: “This guy is done, I’ll stop him in one,” and some even say he was the pioneer of rap.

“You think I was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.I done something new for this fight, I done tassled with an alligator! That’s right. I have tassled with an alligator! I done tussled with a whale! I done handcuffed lightning, throwed 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’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”

“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.”

“Who would have thought, when they came to the fight. That they’d witness the launching of a human satellite? Yes, the crowd did not dream, when they laid down their money, that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!”

“And you’re always talking about, ‘Muhammad, you’re not the same man you were 10 years ago.’ Well, I asked your wife, and she told me you’re not the same man you was two years ago!”

“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.”

“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.”

There are two things that are hard to hit and see, that’s a spooky ghost and Muhammed Ali.

“I am the greatest! I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat. They all must fall in the round I call. I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.”

“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologise.”

Muhammad Ali Hospital

Muhammad Ali, Boxing icon Muhammad Ali is recovering at home after a short hospital stay in Arizona, the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper reported on Friday.

The newspaper says it spoke to Ali’s close friend John Ramsey who said Ali is “home and well” after a scare last month where his wife called for an ambulance to take him to the hospital.

“I don’t think he stayed very long,” Ramsey said. “He may not be going in the direction you or I like but no one is on the alert.”

Earlier Friday the Star magazine and RadarOnline.com reported that Ali had been hospitalized just a few days after attending the funeral for old rival Joe Frazier after Ali lost consciousness at his Phoenix home.