When he told david Frost exactly how he would beat Foreman and it happened the same way. '7 or 8 rounds he'll be puffing' he'll be breathin''
i liked when he said " well henry coopers nothing but a tramp, hes a bum, im the worlds greatest he must fall in 5 rounds but if he talks about me im gonna cut it to 3 he said it sooooo smoothly, which made it that much more hilarious
"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong". It corresponds perfectly with the history of that conflict.
You keep saying im not the fighter I use to be 10 years ago..Well I asked your wife and she said you werent the same man you were two years ago I wanna win my title and walk down the alleys,sit on the garbage can with the wine heads,walk down the streets with the dope addicts,talk to the prostitutes,so i can help a lot of the people
"If he even dreams he can beat me,he'd better wake up and apologise" I once made up a quote of what Ali COULD have said - "I'm so pretty they should employ me to stare at broken mirrors and they'd fix themselves"
There were too many quotes folks. you,just got the feeling with ali that he foresaw his own downfall too. incidentally, there is another new book released called ali in south shields in 1977 too!
" I'm gonna let everybody know that that thing on your head is a phony, and it comes from the tail of the pony!"
"A black men should be killed if he's messing with a white woman." Muhammad Ali While I disagree with the sentiment entirely, it captures perfectly what a obnoxious moron the guy must have been. On the other hand, also shows his total UNIQUENESS, because while I'm sure many men (mostly white) have said that exact same thing in history, he's got to be the only one who gets called a "Civil Rights Hero" and a "crusader AGAINST racism". Truly amazing. When you think about it.
So many obviously, my favourites: "If you wanna know about boxing, don't go to see no boxing experts in Las Vegas, don't see no 'Jimmy-the-Greek', come see Muhammad Ali. I am the man." Also during his post Liston 1 tirade (I shook up the world etc etc) he says: "...I am the Devil. I'm a bad man." I cannot imagine the furore this caused in conservative America, having a Black man on TV say such things with such swag. No wonder he was so divisive....