But every time we got a state that would allow us to fight in it, somebody stopped it.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Greatest (1977) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:10:05.380 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- No, not Joe Frazier. Not right off. Not the first fight.

- Yank Durham said we let him down too many times.

- Oh, man, he's got some nerve.

- It wasn't our fault because things worked out like they did.

- He knows that.

- But every time we got a state that would allow us to fight in it, somebody stopped it.

- And you can't blame Yank for that.

- He says, go fight somebody else. Prove you can get a license. Then you got Joe.

- Ain't this something? After all we've done, three and a half years of waiting, now he's starting to talk funny.

- How about Jerry Quarry?

- Jerry Quarry?

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