Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
14 quotes
"There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality."
"His level of experience is nearly transcendent."
"Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play."
"You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali"
"The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me."
"Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it."
"I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman"
"When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, I know I'm never going to quit."
"Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time."
"His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse."
"George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church."
"I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali"
"People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali"
"Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali"