The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

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

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.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

The biggest challenge of Gods people is ignorance. Ignorance has become a mountain and a stronghold even in Christian churches

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.