People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I love life because what more is there?

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

My wife is already in Heaven.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘