The Louisville Lip | Greatest quotes by Muhammad Ali

Ali, who was born as Cassius Clay, in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942, started boxing when he was 12. He won the Golden Gloves title in 1960 before heading to the Olympics in Rome to win the gold medal in light heavyweight division.

10. “The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

9. “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

7. “Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”

6. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.”

5. “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”

4. "Don't count the days. Make the days count."

3. "Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

2. "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. You can't hit what your eyes don't see."

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