Muhammad Ali Quotes

I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a lot of fan mail saying they prefer our films to anything with CGI in it. I'm grateful for that, and we made them on tight budgets, so they were considered B-pictures because of that. And, now here we are, and they've outlasted many so-called A-pictures.

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.