176 Quotes About Ali

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

I also know that Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson were both dancers. For some reason there's that correlation there. I mean I don't know what it is but I think we love to be challenged and we love to count on ourselves.

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

All of our jackets for NASCAR, major league baseball, the NBA, are licensed. We even made a jacket for Muhammad Ali, a limited run, for $7,000 apiece. Ali signed them.

I think Ali changes the game at both ends of the floor but specifically on defense. It allows our guards to really pressure the ball and get up in the passing lanes, because they know if they get beat they've got Ali back there waiting to help them out.

I thought Ali Jackson had a great night tonight. I thought she really had a big game for us.