Approaching Ali Quotes

“People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.

Ali”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.

George Foreman”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“The guy with Floyd's countenance should have a name like Isaiah or Abraham or Hezekiah. The name Floyd seems mundane for such an intriguing-looking man.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“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.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“His level of experience is nearly transcendent.”
― Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts