I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.’ – ‘There’s not a man alive who can whup me. I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.’ – ‘I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.’ – ‘I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.’ – ‘If you dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologise.’ – ‘There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That’s a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.’ – ‘I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.’ – ‘Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.’ – ‘People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.’ Ali fights Joe Frazier in the ‘Thrilla in Manila’
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