Quote of the Day

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali turns 65 today. The following is a collection of some his most memorable quotes ...

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark."
"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see."
"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Before Foreman fight, 1974

"Now Clay swings with a right - what a beautiful swing - and raises the bear straight out of the ring; Liston is rising and the ref wears a frown, for he can't start counting 'til Liston comes down."
"Now Liston disappears from view, the crowd is getting frantic. But our radar stations have picked him up somewhere over the Atlantic. Who would have thought when they came to the fight that they'd witness the launching of a human satellite?"
"Yes the crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny."
Before first Sonny Liston fight, 1964

"I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong."
After refusing induction to the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, 1967

"It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller when I get the gorilla in Manila."
Before third Joe Frazier fight, 1975