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Ali Quote by Dan Hill

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“Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.”

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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

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Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I…

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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to…

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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody…

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To me, Muhammad Ali, he was the greatest.

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“To love you is to love water that either parches the throat by its absence or drowns me with its anger!”

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Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to…

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No cares about the Muhammad Ali trophy.

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When I attacked Ali I had to have one hand and one foot on the mat at all times.

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I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the…

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I'd love to work with Vishal Bhardwaj and Imtiaz Ali.

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