I've even met the sick bastard personally, thankfully he didn't fix it for me to milk a cow blindfolded or anything, but at the commando training center in England we had an entire room dedicated to him, known as the saville room which has a huge picture of him on the wall as he did a lot of charity work for the royal marines, and its where all the families come for the day to celebrate the completion of training. now its been torn down and changed haha.
anyway, theres a funny interview of muhammed ali and jimmy saville from way back in the day, when ali was on his show to present kids some medals. its funny to watch because even ali can see what a freak he is and cant help laughing and making the weirdo sign at the camera like "who the hell is this guy"
Clay comes out to meet Liston and Liston starts to retreat,
if Liston goes back an inch farther he'll end up in a ringside seat.
Clay swings with his left, Clay swings with his right,
Look at young Cassius carry the fight
Liston keeps backing, but there's not enough room,
It's a matter of time till Clay lowers the boom.
Now Clay lands with a right, what a beautiful swing,
And the punch raises the Bear clean out of the ring.
Liston is still rising and the ref wears a frown,
For he can't start counting till Sonny goes down.
Now Liston is disappearing from view, the crowd is going frantic,
But radar stations have picked him up, somewhere over the Atlantic.
Who would have thought when they came to the fight?
That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
Yes the crowd did not dream, when they put up the money,
That they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny.
Not a quote but probably the most Ali thing Ali ever did is when he went to Sonny Listons house, threatened him and called him out.
"May be this is accepted n white society"
Clay made this comment to Howard Cossell in an ABC interview where they broke down the Dempsey v Willard fight. Clay was commenting on how Dempsey did not go to a neutral corner after knockdowns, instead he stood over Willard ready to hit him again when he would try to get up
He told Earnie Shavers he was going to put a ghetto black folks whipping on him. This was weeks before their fight. Ali was in the NBC studio with Larry Merchant at the time.
Probably saying hes going bear hunting and then put a real bear trap in Sonny Listons front lawn
It's gotta be "I'm so fast, I switch of the light at night and I'm in bed before room is dark" or something along those lines.
he said to Howard Cosell once, "If I had a lower IQ, I could enjoy this interview!"
This is what you are thinking of. This interview sums up all of his great quotes!!!
"I'm so mean I make medicine sick!"
I like the one where he said he threw lighting in jail. I think that's what it said. But I can't remember it off the top.
It can be any quote. A quote he used on an opponent, an interview, or just to show off his sense of humor.
