Muhammad Ali Quotes

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

You don’t want to humiliate your enemy—your adversary.

I like big fights.

When you're rivals, you can never be friends.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we're the adversary they love to hate.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

Enemies are so stimulating.

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

There is no little enemy.

I want the big fights.

I ain't trying to fight for no title.

You have some defenders who don't like you and you don't like them. And you know from the first minute, they're going to do everything to take you out of the game.

I'm about fighting the best guys.

Two guys who don't like each other is a great fight.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.