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Ali, une légende en 10 phrases mythiques
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Publié 04/06/2016 à 08:42 GMT+2
En plus d’être le plus grand boxeur de l’histoire, Mohammed Ali aura été une bête médiatique dotée d’une verve incomparable. A l’occasion de son 70e anniversaire, nous avions retenu 10 déclarations marquantes de "The Greatest". Dix parmi des centaines…
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1. "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, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
2. "'I'll beat him so bad, he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."(Avant d'affronter Floyd Patterson)
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."
4. "'If you dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologise."
5. "Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head."
6. "Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see."Avant d'affronter George Foreman à Kinshasa en 1974
7 . "I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a 'nigger'. "(Pour justifier son refus d'intégrer l'armée US et de prendre part à la guerre du Vietnam)
8. "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
9. "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
10. "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."(A propos de ses talents de golfeur)
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