8.) "After the fight I'm gonna build myself a pretty home and use him as a bearskin rug. Liston even smells like a bear. I'm gonna give him to the local zoo after I whoop him." -- prior to Ali's (then Cassius Clay) first title fight against Sonny Liston in 1964.
5.) "If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize." -- Directed to George Foreman before the "Rumble in the Jungle," which took place in Zaire.
4.) "I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick." -- Ali describes how badass he is before 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle."
3.) "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." -- Ali describing his speed advantage over Foreman.
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The GOAT, ahead of his time with the trash talk and skills, so much so, no heavyweight has been able to match either since. If you see one of his interviews, you can clearly see that his wit is on another level.
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