When We Were Kings
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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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'would pass this large hall
where the training took place

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'and he never looked at Foreman
hitting the heavy bag.

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'He just walked right by
as if Foreman didn't exist.

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'If you were gonna fight the man
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'you didn't want to see him
hitting that heavy bag.'

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I'm a speed demon!
I'm a brain fighter!

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I'm scientific! I'm artistic!
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I plan my strategy!
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He's the bull, I'm the matador!
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He's scared to death.
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He's scared to death!
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He wish he could
get out of the whole thing!

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He wish he could get out of the whole
thing! The man is frightened!

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He's meetin' his master,
his teacher, his idol!

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- Time!
- Is that all?

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(Laughter)
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When I talk and work I'm in shape,
it's all I do.

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(Mailer) 'Ali announced
he was gonna dance.

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'He spoke about it all the time.

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