When We Were Kings
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one and 32/100ths of a second,
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so you break a second into 100 pieces
so, you know...that's quick,

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they got a machine that goes,
like, fr-r-t, real quick, fr-r-t,

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and it counts real quick, real quick.
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And by the time that thing
hit four that's how quick,

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from the time the punch started
to where it landed

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was 4/100ths of a second,
an eye blink, like a camera flash.

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That's 4/100ths of a second.
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When I hit Sonny Liston
all those people blinked,

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so they didn't see it.
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- (Laughter)
- I swear!

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(Ali) If you watch the film close,
keep your eyes real close...

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- (Laughter)
- Keep looking.

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I'm getting ready to hit him.
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You got to hold your eyes and wait
or you won't see it, man!

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Ali was a beautiful...specimen,
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a fighting machine.
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He was handsome,
he was articulate, he was funny,

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charismatic.
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And was whuppin' ass too.
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(Reporter) 'Deposed champion
Cassius Clay, at court in Houston,

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'is found guilty of violating
Selective Service laws

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'by refusing to be inducted.
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'He is sentenced to five years
in prison and fined $10,000.'

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(Lee) 'The way he fused
politics and sports.

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'Very few Black athletes had ever
talked the way Muhammad Ali talked

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'without fear of something
happening to their careers.'

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(Reporter) '..as a Moslem minister
made him exempt...'

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(Man) 'He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans

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'because he had joined
the Nation of Islam,

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'which was perceived as
a radical Black separatist group.'

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On top of that,
when he was called for induction

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he refused to take the step forward.
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He absolutely infuriated America.
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Muhammad Ali said,
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

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The king is going home
to get his throne.

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From root to fruit,
that's where everything started at.

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This is God's act
and you're part of it.


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