World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, a black Muslim, attends the sect's service to hear Elijah Muhammad deliver the annual Savior's Day message in Chicago. 03/1974
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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.
What keeps me going is goals.
When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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