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Muhammad Ali was niet alleen een bokskampioen, hij was ook kampioen praten. Dit zijn de beroemdste uitspraken van de vannacht overleden Amerikaan. In het Engels, omdat de quotes zo het best tot hun recht komen.
"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
"At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
"I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.''
"I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. I'm the boldest, the prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skillfullest fighter in the ring today."
"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free."
"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."
"I may not talk perfect white talk-type English but I give you wisdom."
"If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up!"
"I'm the onliest person that can speak to everybody in the whole world. My name is known in Serbia, Pakistan, Morocco. These are countries that don't follow the Kentucky Derby."
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