Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

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

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength.

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.