Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley -

I was the Elvis of boxing.'

Ali fights Joe Frazier in the 'Thrilla in Manila'

ON JOE FRAZIER

10 - 'Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.'

11 - 'Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around

and go down the back of his head.'

12 - 'It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.'

13- 'I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now,

brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.'

Ali versus Foreman in the 'Rumble in the Jungle'

ON GEORGE FOREMAN

14 - 'I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing. And the shadow won.'

15 - 'Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.'

16- 'Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!'

17- 'It's a divine fight. This Foreman - he represents Christianity,

America, the flag. I can't let him win. He represents pork chops.'

18 -'That all you got George?' (Ali during the Rumble in the Jungle)

ON FLOYD PATTERSON

19- 'Hey Floyd - I seen you! Someday I'm gonna whup you!

Don't you forget, I am the greatest!'

20 - 'I'll beat him so bad, he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.'

Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston: Tale of the tape

ON SONNY LISTON

21 - '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.'

22 - 'I shook up the world! I shook up the world!'

23 - 'Why, chump, I bet you scare yourself to death just starin' in the mirror.

You ugly bear! You ain't never fought nobody but tramps and has beens.

You call yourself a world champion? You're too old and slow to be champion!'

24 - 'Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.'

(Ali to Liston during their second fight)

ON HOWARD COSSELL

25 - '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

26 - 'I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.'

ON LIFE

27 - 'When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.'

28 - 'Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it.

I am Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist

people use it when people speak to me and of me.'

29 - 'What's my name, fool? What's my name?'

(Ali to Ernie Terrell who refused to call him Muhammad Ali)

30 - '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.'

31 - 'Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home

and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in

Louisville are treated like dogs?'

32 - 'I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a 'nigger'.'

33 - 'A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.'

34 - 'Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.'

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

36 - 'A rooster crows only when it sees the light.

Put him in the dark and he'll never crow.

I have seen the light and I'm crowing.'

37 - 'It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.'

Muhammad Ali celebrates 70th birthday

Muhammad Ali was the world heavyweight champion with an appeal that went beyond sport.

watch how he clebrates his birthday

http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/170030-Muhammad-Ali-celebrates-70th-birthday

Stop emails | Join Us by Email | Join from Web | Visit Yahoo! Group | Join Nidokidos Forum

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

New Members 582

Visit Your Group

===================================================
NidokidoS Group for best of forwarded mails
To join us , send an email to
nidokidos-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Be the part of Nidokidos , Join our Forum
http://www.nidokidos.org

to share your emails with us, send them at
nidokidos@yahoogroups.com

click below to Subscribe to nidokidos forum updates
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=nidokidosforum
===================================================

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

[nidokidos] 'I am so mean I make medicine sick'

Muhammad Ali turns 70 today, and to celebrate the life of the Louisville Lip,

we have compiled his greatest quotes.

Here are 37 of Ali's most vicious, funny and profound sayings -

one for each knock-out of his professional career.