Happy Birthday Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr

[mattola]

one day late but happy birthday anyway

 

[mattola]

quotable

ON HIMSELF
Rnd 1 - 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.

Rnd 2 - 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.

Rnd 3 - 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.

Rnd 4 - I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Rnd 5 - If you dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologise.

Rnd 6 - There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

Rnd 7 - One of these days, they're liable to make the house I grew up in a national shrine.

ON JOE FRAZIER
Rnd 8 - Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.

Rnd 9 - Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

ON GEORGE FOREMAN
Rnd 10 - I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing. And the shadow won.

Rnd 11 - It's a divine fight. This Foreman - he represents Christianity, America, the flag. I can't let him win. He represents pork chops.

ON FLOYD PATTERSON
Rnd 12 - I'll beat him so bad, he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

ON SONNY LISTON
Rnd 13 - Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking
lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

ON HOWARD COSSELL
Rnd 14 - You're always talking about, Muhammad, you're not the same man you were 10 years ago. Well, I asked your wife, and she told me you're not the same man you was two years ago!

ON GOLF
Rnd 15 - I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

 

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
There is only one Muhammad Ali

 

[elocomotive]

I have always hated Ali for the horrible things he said about Joe Frazier, calling him a gorilla and an uncle tom. Funny guy. The greatest boxer that has ever lived. He was also a horrible husband and a bad human being. Frazier implied that Ali got what he deserved in life. I happen to agree.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I have always hated Ali for the horrible things he said about Joe Frazier, calling him a gorilla and an uncle tom. Funny guy. The greatest boxer that has ever lived. He was also a horrible husband and a bad human being. Frazier implied that Ali got what he deserved in life. I happen to agree.

 

[dash]

I have always hated Ali for the horrible things he said about Joe Frazier, calling him a gorilla and an uncle tom. Funny guy. The greatest boxer that has ever lived. He was also a horrible husband and a bad human being. Frazier implied that Ali got what he deserved in life. I happen to agree.

Man, you have just been a grumpy gus the last few days...You know what you need is some Capitals hockey.

 

[puckhead]

had the privilege of seeing him in Miami about 10 yrs ago.
even in his frail state, that man could command a room like no one else.

Etta James sang at the party too, that was so freakin' cool.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I have always hated Ali for the horrible things he said about Joe Frazier, calling him a gorilla and an uncle tom. Funny guy. The greatest boxer that has ever lived. He was also a horrible husband and a bad human being. Frazier implied that Ali got what he deserved in life. I happen to agree.

 

[abaskin18]

Hi mamma name him "Clay." I'm gonna call him "Clay"

 

[elocomotive]

Man, you have just been a grumpy gus the last few days...You know what you need is some Capitals hockey.

Grumpy gus... hahaha. Not sure what else I've been grumpy about, but I've had a bad couple days in my personal life and have been a little sick to boot, so maybe so.

Honestly though, I really hate Ali. What he did to Frazier and the race-baiting he was doing was just shameful to me. Frazier had helped him earlier in his career and the things he said about Frazier stereotyped him and cast a shadow over him and haunted him for most, if not all, of his life.

Others don't like it, that's fine. It's just my opinion of Ali.