Davis Miller > 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

“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 am all styles yet I am no style," said Bruce Lee.”
― Davis Miller, The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir

“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

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

George Foreman”
― 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

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

“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

“We struggle. Always.
We are doing the best that we can.
And we dream of transcendence.
For me, there was a time when the dream was incarnate.

And the dream's name was Muhammad Ali.

This is the story of my time spent with that dream.”
― Davis Miller

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Look around the martial arts," Lee continued, "and witness the assortment of routine performers, trick artists, desensitized robots, glorifiers of the past. Life is constant movement - rhythmic as well as random. Life is continual change, not stagnation. Instead of choicelessly flowing with this process of change, many 'masters', past and present, rigidly subscribe to traditional concepts and techniques of the art, solidfiying the everflowing, dissecting the totality.”
― Davis Miller, The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir