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...sullen glare of the late Sonny Liston (but none of the deep-rooted malice), courts neither the public nor the press. "I'm just me, see." he says. "If some people don't notice me, that's good. I got enough people pestering me. I'm making money, ain't I? That's enough for me." When Ali starts his familiar gate-hypoing routine by calling Joe a "chump," "impostor," "amateur" and "tramp," Frazier mutters something about "childishness" and goes on his way. Joe is proud of his rough skills and his success, proud of being a poor black...
None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...
...exam ("I never said I was the smartest; I said I was the greatest") was suddenly switched to 1-A. Rather too quickly for the law, Ali was made a Muslim "minister" in order to claim a clerical exemption. He also infuriated thousands of Americans by ingenuously remarking, "I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Congs." A year later, he was convicted of draft evasion, fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison, pending appeal. "What can you give me, America?" said Ali after the W.B.A. hastily stripped him of his title. "You want...
...talk shows, got married for the second time, fathered three daughters and bought a $92,000 home on Philadelphia's Main Line with a color TV set in every room, 12 telephones and a swimming pool. If anything, his convictions became more firmly entrenched: "Tell everybody that Muhammad Ali ain't licked yet. I say damn the fights and damn all the money. A man's got to stand up for what he believes, and I'm standin' up for my people even if I have to go to jail...
...mirror: "Bap! Bap! Bap! I jab him once, twice, three times. Dance away. I move in again. Bam. Bam. Bam. I hit him five times. He hits me one time. I back away. I'm moving around him. Bim. Bim. Bim. I get him again. He's movin' in, ain't reaching me because he's too small to reach me. He's reachin' and strainin' with those hooks, and they're getting longer and longer. And now he's lunging and jumping, and that's when I started popping and smoking. I'm looking for the opening, lookin...