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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
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The Greatest
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Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
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I'm pretty as a girl.
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