Muhammad Ali on sports

I’m so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

Mike Tysonborn 1966Interview with Jim Gray (2000).

You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity…no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

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