When We Were Kings
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I don't want that and he understands.
Everybody's got their culture.

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So we're not saying we hate you
or we're never talking to you again

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and doing business, we don't do that.
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We're saying
that we want to be independent.

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# Baby, I wonder
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# Yes, I wonder
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# Baby, I wonder
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# Oh, I wonder what in the world
is gonna happen to me #

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(Plimpton) 'The great place
to visit in Kinshasa

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'was a compound
about 20 miles up the Congo.

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'A place called Enseli,
a presidential palace.

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'That was where we saw Foreman,
who seemed incredible.'

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I'd seen him fight before,
I saw him destroy Frazier

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and the thing I always remembered
was that the beaten fighter,

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even a man as powerful
and big as Frazier,

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and he was very much favoured
to win that,

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suddenly becomes the size of a pygmy.
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They just diminish in size,
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and Foreman suddenly became
this gigantic figure.

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'And he had a trainer, Dick Sadler,
tiny by comparison,

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'and Sadler would hang on to this
heavy bag while Foreman would hit it.

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'Sadler would have been
picked off his feet.'

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(Mailer) 'Foreman hitting the bag
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'is one of the more prodigious sights
I've had in my life.

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'Of all the people I've seen hit
heavy bags, including Sonny Liston,

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'no one hit it the way Foreman did.'
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At the end of 15 minutes
of pounding the heavy bag,

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there'd be a hole,
not a hole but a huge dent,

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the size of half a small watermelon
in that tremendous bag,

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and Foreman used to use
the biggest heavy bag around.

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'What would be interesting is Ali,
who would train after Foreman,


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