Yesterday, I posted about Howard Cosell (Words of Wisdom: Howard Cosell) Today, it only makes sense to post on Muhammad Ali.  Muhammad Ali is a former world champion boxer known as much for his mouth as for his boxing skills.  Here are some of his insights:

• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was
• When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble
• I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest
• Old age is just a record of one's whole life
• I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life
• The man who has no imagination has no wings
• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen
• My toughest fight was with my first wife
• It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe
• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights
• At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
• If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize
• A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing
• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am
• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are
• It's not bragging if you can back it up
• My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world
• No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room
• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even
• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself
• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer
• Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything
• If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you
• What keeps me going is goals

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