Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.

You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali