George Foreman's opinion when he first met Muhammad Ali

"Finally, I actually met Ali. It was around the time of my first professional fight. I was working in a gym in Florida. Ali came in, walked over to me with a briefcase in his hand, and said, "George Foreman, I'm Muhammad Ali." My knees where shaking; that's how proud I was to meet him.

Then he said, "I'm going to show you something that will blow your mind. Don't tell anybody, but when you get to be champ, you'll have something like this." And he sort of motioned me to the side, to a place no one else in the gym could see us. He was pointing to his briefcase, and I said to myself, "He's going to open it up, and there's going to be thousands of dollars inside." And sure enough he opened the briefcase, and inside, there was a telephone. He said, "Man, what do you think of that?"

And what I thought was, I love him, but this guy is crazy."

George Foreman