When We Were Kings
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:03:03
that leaves me exactly one year
to reach my goal.

:03:08
People do say I'm cocky,
some say I need a good whuppin',

:03:13
some say I talk too much,
:03:15
but anything that I say,
I'm willing to back up.

:03:19
The other night I predicted
:03:21
that I would knock out Banks
in four rounds and I did.

:03:26
I knocked out Don Warner
:03:28
and I just annihilated
George Logan in four rounds.

:03:42
(Reporter) 'Close your mouth
and keep it closed.'

:03:45
- That's impossible.
- Keep it closed.

:03:48
I'm the greatest
and I'm knocking out all bums.

:03:51
And if you get too smart
I'll knock you out.

:03:58
(Reporter) 'You'd take him on
before the fight?'

:04:02
Beat him like I'm his daddy.
:04:04
I saw Sonny Liston a few days ago.
:04:06
Ain't he ugly?
:04:11
I'm young, I'm handsome,
:04:14
I'm fast, I'm pretty
and can't possibly be beat.

:04:17
(Commentator) Cassius Clay
goes into the record book

:04:20
with Corbett, Tunney and Braddock,
:04:23
bringing off another great upset
in heavyweight history.

:04:27
(Ali) It is befitting that I leave
the game just like I came in,

:04:31
beating a big bad monster
who knocks out everybody

:04:35
and no one can whup him.
:04:37
When little Cassius Clay
stopped Sonny Liston,

:04:40
the man who annihilated
Floyd Patterson twice.

:04:43
He was gonna kill me!
:04:45
But he hit harder than George.
:04:47
His reach is longer,
he's a better boxer

:04:50
and I'm better now than when you saw
that kid running from Sonny Liston.

:04:55
I'm experienced now, professional.
:04:57
Jaw's been broke, been knocked down
a couple of times, I'm bad!


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