Muhammad Ali quote: "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."

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a...
ATO ESSANDOH

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
MAC DAVIS

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren...
DRAKE BELL

He's like the Muhammad Ali of football. Muhammad Ali was the trash-talker of boxing. It's funny, tho...
CHARLES TILLMAN

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he wa...
JERRY LEIBER

Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis ...
SUZI QUATRO

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
GEORGE THOROGOOD

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show th...
LENNIE JAMES

There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all th...
FRANK BLACK

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta w...
MAC DAVIS

The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is...
JESSE MCCARTNEY

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra...
TRACY MORGAN

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the r...
JACKIE DESHANNON

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with peop...
JOHN VARVATOS

That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah...
DOLLY PARTON

I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my im...
PETE BURNS

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy...
MOLLY IVINS

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name ...
FKA TWIGS

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a s...
EVEL KNIEVEL

I have been around for 35 years. I have met Elvis Presley, Elton John, John Lennon, all the Beatles....
URI GELLER

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of G...
JOHNNY CASH

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have so...
CHRIS ISAAK

When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociol...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley ...
RICHARD HELL

You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'...
DRAKE MILLIGAN

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si...
SAMANTHA BARKS

I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto ...
CANELO ALVAREZ

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wri...
PETER STEELE

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Al...
GEORGE FOREMAN

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When ...
MICHAEL BUBLE

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they ...
CANELO ALVAREZ

I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' ...
KID CUDI

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elv...
MAC DAVIS

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King C...
ICE CUBE

I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu...
HOLLY HOLM

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some...
JACKIE DESHANNON

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valou...
GEORGE FOREMAN

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis wa...
MAC DAVIS

I always liked Elvis Presley when I was younger - I told anyone who would listen that I was going to...
ISLA FISHER

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it...
ERIC BRISTOW

Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they we...
TERI GARR

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
JOHNNY RAMONE

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...
CHRIS CORNELL

Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, ...
PERCY SLEDGE

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most ch...
HAROLD PINTER

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
GORDON WALLER

I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a...
NATALIE COLE

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a ...
PHIL OCHS

The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one ...
EDWARD ZWICK

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the bui...
BONO

I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as wel...
JIM BROWN

At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis...
HAILEY GATES

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people&#...
MAC DAVIS

For years, Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Presley family have envisioned a project like this. We ...
JACK SODEN

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
MAC DAVIS

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only follo...
ROD STEWART

Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing,...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

The first T-shirt with a rock likeness was put out by an Elvis Presley fan club around 1956, ... It'...
HOWARD KRAMER

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
JOHN LENNON

My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and ...
RYAN GOSLING

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sor...
TOM PETTY

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
CHARLEY PRIDE

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ...
JOEY RAMONE

In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I menti...
GARY DAVID GOLDBERG

What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen...
JOHN DE MOL, JR.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license phot...
EMILY PROCTER

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
ROBIN TROWER

What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like g...
ANTOINE FUQUA

There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of a...
BILL MEDLEY

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influen...
JOYCE MEYER

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These g...
BRUNO MARS

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American...
JIMMY IOVINE

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I ...
FOSTER FRIESS

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as...
BOB GAUDIO

As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis...
ROGER STONE

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
DENNIS RODMAN

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't li...
ALAIN PROST

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love tha...
VILLE VALO

4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's e...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

I wish the media and people that work in media would realize sometimes - and I know it doesn't p...
ALLEN IVERSON

I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've...
JOHN MOTSON

I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
ED WESTWICK

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it'...
KRIS CARR

When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL JR.

When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL CORDERO JR.

I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu...
DEMETRI MARTIN

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
VERA FARMIGA

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. W...
BORIS YELTSIN

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.

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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.

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