Muhammad Ali Quotes

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.

A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

I never wanted fame.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I'm probably the least famous of any guy who's worked as much as I have.

Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.

I'm not a household name.

I have no desire to be famous, definitely not.

I do not want fame.

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

Does anybody like being recognized? I understand that it's my job. I'm grateful about people who are moved enough by the work to want to say something. But I mourn the loss of anonymity.

I don't know any celebrities. I know a lot of people that most people have never heard of.

I've never wished for people to recognise me or anything.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.