The Greatest (1977) Quotes with Sound Clips

The Greatest (1977) Quotes with Sound Clips

Sound clips of the most memorable quotes from the 1977 biographical sports film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine (Angelo Dundee),Paul Winfield (Mr. Eskridge), James Earl Jones (Malcolm X), Drew Bundini Brown

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1 You want to quit. It feels like you can't go another inch. You can't go another step, but you keep going. What kind of man is that? You should just go until you want to fall out in your tracks. And then after that, you've only got about halfway through...

— (Muhammad Ali)

2 'Cause you just don't train the body. You got to get into the soul.

— (Drew Bundini Brown)

3 I'm against the war in Vietnam. I've said on occasions in the press, I don't think black people should go to Vietnam and fight Asian, yellow people who've never lynched us, raped us, called us niggers, deprived us of freedom, justice, equality...

— (Muhammad Ali)

4 Man, your doctor don't know what he's talking about. That's what you want to do: strain. You want to run until it pains. You want to run until your throat feels like sandpaper. You want to run until it feels like you're going to throw up.

— (Muhammad Ali)

5 And you and I both know that he's headed for defeat. -On that we both agree, but there's only one thing. We have yet to get that chump in the ring.

— (Muhammad Ali), (Drew Bundini Brown)

6 Anyway, you haven't gone to Las Vegas. You haven't gone to Hawaii. You haven't gone to Miami. -And just let it stay like that.

— Mr. Eskridge (Paul Winfield), (Muhammad Ali)

7 You want to keep running until your legs are pained. Until you're going to die, you're going to fall out. You've got to run until your stomach feels like it's going to burst. Until your heart starts pounding.

— (Muhammad Ali)

8 Fight for freedom? Fight for whose freedom? I'm not free right here. You got places on Miami Beach I can't go. My people not free.

— (Muhammad Ali)

9 Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can't hit what you can't see.

— (Drew Bundini Brown)

10 How many of you all want to be like me one day? Okay, then. Obey your mother and fathers. Get your schoolwork. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Stay out of bad gangs. You hear me?

— (Muhammad Ali)

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