:10:01
one and 32/100ths of a second,
:10:03
so you break a second into 100 pieces
so, you know...that's quick,
:10:08
they got a machine that goes,
like, fr-r-t, real quick, fr-r-t,
:10:12
and it counts real quick, real quick.
:10:15
And by the time that thing
hit four that's how quick,
:10:18
from the time the punch started
to where it landed
:10:21
was 4/100ths of a second,
an eye blink, like a camera flash.
:10:25
That's 4/100ths of a second.
:10:28
When I hit Sonny Liston
all those people blinked,
:10:31
so they didn't see it.
:10:33
- (Laughter)
- I swear!
:10:35
(Ali) If you watch the film close,
keep your eyes real close...
:10:39
- (Laughter)
- Keep looking.
:10:41
I'm getting ready to hit him.
:10:43
You got to hold your eyes and wait
or you won't see it, man!
:10:48
Ali was a beautiful...specimen,
:10:51
a fighting machine.
:10:52
He was handsome,
he was articulate, he was funny,
:10:58
charismatic.
:11:00
And was whuppin' ass too.
:11:03
(Reporter) 'Deposed champion
Cassius Clay, at court in Houston,
:11:06
'is found guilty of violating
Selective Service laws
:11:09
'by refusing to be inducted.
:11:11
'He is sentenced to five years
in prison and fined $10,000.'
:11:15
(Lee) 'The way he fused
politics and sports.
:11:18
'Very few Black athletes had ever
talked the way Muhammad Ali talked
:11:23
'without fear of something
happening to their careers.'
:11:26
(Reporter) '..as a Moslem minister
made him exempt...'
:11:29
(Man) 'He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans
:11:33
'because he had joined
the Nation of Islam,
:11:36
'which was perceived as
a radical Black separatist group.'
:11:40
On top of that,
when he was called for induction
:11:43
he refused to take the step forward.
:11:46
He absolutely infuriated America.
:11:48
Muhammad Ali said,
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
:11:52
The king is going home
to get his throne.
:11:54
From root to fruit,
that's where everything started at.
:11:58
This is God's act
and you're part of it.