When We Were Kings
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1:12:02
It's the other way round,
what you love destroys you.

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(Mailer) 'He came back,
he had 22 fights.

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'Some were most honourable,
some very difficult.

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'Some were comedies and farces.
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'He hurt himself in those 22 fights
after the fight in Africa.'

1:12:27
(Plimpton) 'There is a tendency
to look at Muhammad and say

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'he's wounded, he's ill.
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'There are no intellectual deficits,
it's a motor skills problem

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'and he doesn't try
to hide his condition.

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'He goes out and lets
the whole world see it.

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'He doesn't feel sorry for himself
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'and there's really no reason for
anybody else to feel sorry for him.

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'He loves being Muhammad Ali,
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'he truly believes
that he's doing God's work

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'and he's as happy with each day
as anybody I know.'

1:13:00
(Lee) 'Today's young generation,
they don't know anything.'

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Something happened last year,
they know nothing about it.

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So there are these great great
stories, great historic events,

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and I'm not talking
about 1850s stuff,

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they don't know who Malcolm X is,
they don't know who JFK is,

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Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson,
you can go down the line.

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And it's scary.
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'They're missing a lot if they don't
know the legacy of Muhammad Ali,

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'because no matter
what era you live in,

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'you see very few true heroes.'
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(Crowd chanting) Ali, boma ye!
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Ali, boma ye! Ali, boma ye!
Ali, boma ye!

1:13:48
Back up, sucker, back up.
1:13:51
Come get me, sucker, I'm dancin'!
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I'm dancin'! Follow me, chump!
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I'm not there, I'm here!
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Sucker, you ain't got nothing!

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