Muhammad Ali Quotes

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

Nobody has really gone out to Russia to fight somebody like Kovalev. A lot of people are paying attention to it and can't believe what I'm doing. Some people think I'm going to pull out. I've seen comments saying 'Oh this is a good publicity stunt' and I was just laughing. They don't understand.

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

I've been in that situation many times before - where I'm losing and I have to knock a guy out.

I've been in the ring with the Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I've tasted his power, and he's tasted mine.

Ochocinco had a rare instinct for making himself an almost daily story.

The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.

People thought I was crazy for fighting Michael Bentt.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali's model. He can say whatever he wants but he's got to prove it. If he doesn't prove it, his career is going to be short.

I have a dream fight - boxing fight - and I am for sure gonna fight a boxing fight.

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.

There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

He [Donald Trump] is gotten $4 billion worth of free media. They launched his campaign. As I think the president of CBS said, you know, "He may be bad for America but he sure is good for my bottom line."

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

No day is safe from news of you.

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.