Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
Robert Goulet

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
Ken Norton

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
Larry Holmes

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
Cicely Tyson

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
Robert Goulet

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
Wilt Chamberlain

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
Roone Arledge

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.
Arthur Hiller

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.
Ken Norton

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
Dick Schaap

I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.
Dick Schaap

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
Howard Cosell

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
Dick Schaap

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
Robert Goulet

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.
Larry Holmes

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
Will McDonough