Ali Rap

[Smith]

Anybody see the ESPN special, or read the book? I picked it up yesterday. It's an humorous and wonderful read, and a wonderfully desgined and edited book by George Lois. It is titled "Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali The First Heavyweight Champion Of Rap.

I'll shoot off a couple of my favorite lines from the book.

"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

" I've got speed, power and endurance. And anyone who fights me had better take out extra life insurance."

" I'm so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom...and I was in bed before the room was dark."

"I've seen George Foreman shadowboxing... and the shadow won."

"Don King's body got four years in prison, but his hair got the chair."

here's some great dialogue between Ali and Howard Cossell.

"Howard Cossell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid- only they couldn't find a mouthpeice big enough." -Ali

Howard Cossell - " You seem awfully truculent today, Champ."
Ali- " I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me."

[Truculent - 1:feeling or displaying ferocity; cruel, savage. 2: Deadly, Destructive. 3: scathingly harsh: Vitrolic. 4: Agressively self-assertive : Belligerent - tru-cu-lent-ly adv. ]

Howard Cossell: "Muhammad, you clearly aren't the same fighter you were ten years ago."
Muhammad Ali: "Well, Howard, I just talked to your wife and she says you're not the same man you were TWO years ago."


"So when they ask you what's the latest, just say: "Ali, Ali, he's still the greatest!""

[Sendo Takeshi]

Mike Tyson quotes are too good as well. Ali was the better trashtalker though. God bless him.

Here are some nice Mike Tyson quotes:

"I just want to conquer people and their souls."

"I'm on the Zoloft [an antidepressant] to keep from killing y'all."

“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.”

"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. They're just as good as dead."

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."


I love Mike.

[kenshinbebop]

I saw it on ESPN a while ago, but I didn't actually stop to watch it. The Rutles were on. -_-;
I think I'll stop next time though, from reading these quotes. :D

[Haro!]

I have murdered a rock,
I’ve injured a stone, and hospitalized a brick.
I’m so bad, I make medicine sick.

That's just a personal favorite of mine

I originally thought this was going to be about that Ali G song "Me Julie". Or about one of the songs that plays on the show like "ali and the FB ali and the FB"

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I don't think you can get much better than Ali. Except Apollo Creed.

[Fobb]

Ali is the king of trash talk. And in response to what Prons said:

"Derogatory....um....oh yeah. He's a great fighter"

[Fobb]

I'm watching it right now. It's crazy cool