Discuter:Muhammad Ali (boxeur)

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Mohamed Ali n'est-il pas le vrai nom de cette personne aujourd'hui ? S'il vous plaît le respect de spectacle et renomme cet article. 172.175.82.116 5 avr 2005 à 06:18 (CEST)

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En rapport avec la boxe
  • « L'homme qui voit à 50 ans le monde comme il le voyait à 20 a gaspillé 30 ans de sa vie. »[1]
  • « I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I'm so great I don't have a mark on my face. I shook up the world. »[2]
  • « Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it. »[3]
  • « I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. »[4]
  • « Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first, For claiming to be King of the Jungle. For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tustled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And put thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. I have murdered a rock, I’ve injured a stone, and hospitalized a brick. I’m so bad, I make medicine sick. I’m so fast, man, I can run through a hurricane and not get wet. When George Foreman meets me, He’ll pay his debt. I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree. Wait till you see Muhammad Ali. »[5]
  • « Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. » [6]
  • « Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.  »[7]
  • « It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.  »[8]
  • « I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.  »[9]
Sans rapport avec la boxe
  • « Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years. »[10]
  • « Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. »[11]
  • « What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. »[12]


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  • « Who is the greatest? Eat your words! I shook up the World! »[réf. nécessaire]
  • « Dans 100 ans, ils diront que j'étais blanc...c'est ce qu'ils ont fait à Jésus. »[réf. nécessaire]
  • « Je suis noir, je ne vois pas pourquoi j'irais tuer des jaunes pour faire plaisir à des blancs. »[réf. nécessaire]
  • « Me, we! » : lorsqu'on lui demanda un poème lors d'une conférence devant une promotion d'Harvard. (dans le documentaire When We Were Kings, tel que rapporté par George Plimpton)
  • « Quand on est ce que je suis, il est difficile de rester humble. »[réf. nécessaire]
  • « Mes adversaires ne peuvent pas toucher ce qu'ils ne voient pas. »[réf. nécessaire]
  • « I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark »[réf. nécessaire]

Pour l'anecdote, l'équipe qui encadrait Muhammad Ali s'appelait l' "Ali Army".

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  1. Playboy, novembre 1975
  2. Statement from the boxing ring after beating Sonny Liston (1964-02-25); as quoted in "When Clay shook up the world", 2004-02-24)
  3. Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round (July 1971)
  4. Statement after losing his fight to Ken Norton (1973-03-31)
  5. A poem from Rumble in the Jungle (1974)
  6. As quoted at "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing (17 January 2007)
  7. As quoted at "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing (17 January 2007)
  8. As quoted at "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing (17 January 2007)
  9. As quoted at "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing (17 January 2007)
  10. As quoted in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999) by Mike Marqusee; also quoted in the International Socialist Review Issue 33 (January–February 2004)
  11. When asked how he felt about the suspects in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks sharing his Islamic faith. In Bush: 'Justice Will Be Done', CNN, 2001-09-20.
  12. In Lisa L. Colangelo and Clem Richardson, "Muhammad Ali Defends His Religion", New York Daily News 2001-09-21, p. 34