Muhammad Ali Quotes
Da bi razumeli Muhammad Ali-ja ne možete samo razumeti borca, morate biti borac a da bi bili borac morate znati kako se borac oseća u ringu kada ima zver ispred sebe u suprotnom uglu koja samo čeka da čuje zvuk gonga i da krene na vas. Ono što bi on najviše želeo je da vas nakon tog zvuka vidi mrtve. Ukoliko ne mozete da savladate taj strah nikada nećete shvatiti borca.
Muhammad Ali je bio jedan od najvećih boksera svih vremena. Većina ljudi ne voli Alija zbog kontraverznih izjava koje je voleo da daje novinarima.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
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.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
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.
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Superman don't need no seat belt.
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
What keeps me going is goals.
When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
George Louis Chuvalo
George Louis Chuvalo "Boom Boom" ( 11. 09. 1937. ) je kanadski bokser. On je najuspešniji kanadski bokser svih vremena.Postao je poznat sa 18 godina kada je nokautirao 4 protivnika i tada je osvojio nagradu od 500 dolara.
U svojoj karijeri imao je 93 meča, od toga 73 pobede (64 K.O.), 18 nerešenih i 2 poraza. George "Boom Boom" Chuvalo je jedini bokser, u profesionalnom i amaterskom boksu, koji nije pao unutar ringa. Izgubio je dva meča ali tehničkim nokautom.
Jedan je od retkih boksera koje Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier i George Foreman nisu uspeli da nokautiraju.
Muhammad Ali je za njega izjavio : "On je bio najtvrđi bokser sa kojim sam se ikad borio. Primao je moje najjače udarce i ostajao na nogama. Taj čovek stvano ima gvozdenu bradu."
Nakon meča između Muhammad Ali-ja i George "Boom Boom" Chuvalo-a, Ali je hospitalizovan zbog unutrašnjeg krvarenja a Chuvalo otišao u bioskop sa svojom suprugom.
László Papp
László Papp (25. 03. 1926. – 16. 11. 2003.) je bio mađarski bokser, trostruki osvajač Olimpijskih igara.
Sa tri zlata za redom postao je prvi bokser u istoriji Olimpijskih igara kome je to pošlo za rukom.
Zlato u Londonu 1948. u srednjoj kategoriji
Zlato u Helsinkiju 1952. polusrednjoj kategoriji
Zlato u Melbournu 1956. polusrednjoj kategoriji.
Iako se na profesionalizam nije gledalo blagonaklono u tadašnjoj komunističkoj Mađarskoj, Papp je 1957. godine prešao u profesionalce. Profesionalnih borbi nije bilo u Mađarskoj, pa je Papp na sve borbe pa čak i na većinu treninga je putovao u Beč, u Austriju. Uprkos tim problema uspeo je da održi odličnu formu, pobedi sve evropske protivnike i postane izazivač za meč protiv svetskog prvaka. Nažalost do borbe za prvaka nikad nije došlo jer mu nije odobrena izlazna viza za put na meč. Time je mađarska vlast nasilno prekinula ovu sjajnu karijeru.
Papp nije nikada poražen na u ringu. Njegov profesionalni skor je 28 pobeda i 2 nerešene borbe, bez poraza. Od 28 pobeda čak 21 borbu je završio nokautom pre isteka borbe. I tako je ostao zapamćen kao jedan od najboljih boksera svih vremena.
Takođe je bio evropski prvak 1949. i 1951. godine.