Muhammad (Mohammed) Ali : Interview in Ireland (July 1972) [FULL]

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." - Muhammad Ali

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." - Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali is in Ireland in July 1972 to fight Alvin Lewis. In this video, he is being interviewed by Cathal O'Shannon (TV presenter). It is said that it was Cathal O'Shannon's best remembered journalistic coups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_O%27Shannon_%28TV_presenter%29

I found this video on youtube in 5 parts. I just concatenated them and uploaded the whole interview in one piece. Thanks to the original uploader.

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The poem at the end is at 44:11. Explaining its original inspirational context is at 43:03. If you have a suggestion to correct the transcript below please let me know :

Better far— from all I see—
To die fighting to be Free
What more fitting end could be?

Better surely than in some bed
Where in broken health I'm led
Lingering until I'm dead

Better than with prayers and pleas
Or in the clutch of some disease
Wasting slowly by degrees

Better than a heart attack
or some dose of drug I lack
Let me die by being Black

Better far that I should go
Standing here against the foe
Is the sweeter death to know

Better than the bloody stain
on some highway where I'm lain
Torn by flying glass and pane

Better calling death to come
than to die another dumb,
muted victim in the slum

Better than of this prison rot
if there's any choice I've got
Kill me here on the spot

Better for my fight to wage
Now while my blood boils with rage
Less it cool with ancient age

Better violent for us to die
Than to Uncle Tom and try
Making peace just to live a lie

Better now that I say my Sooth
I'm gonna die demanding Truth
While I'm still akin to youth

Better now than later on
Now that fear of death is gone
Never mind another dawn.

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[SuperKing604]

awesome interview!

[sprimusp1]

A True American Hero!

[dragonfurp]

damn, what a champion

[montecucco911]

Just a legend !!

[imcloug2]

Legend!



[robertk1968]

Excellent ! Less we forget what a truly clever, funny and righteous individual this man is !!