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Moment that we could go. >> when did you start getting butterflies? >> it was when -- we used to walk by the zaire river in the evening, and that was probably during those times. >> they would marry eventually. but first the fight that captured the world. >> george foreman is head hunting himself. ali tries to hang on. >> i hit him with all kinds of punches, and one thing about a power puncher is every time you throw one big right hand, a left hook wide and wild, it's like ten miles of road work that's going away from you, and you'll never get it back. >> ali's got his gloves up here. so the r...

The best friend i ever had in my life. that fight made it that way. >> how did that happen? help us understand how you would go for that moment -- go from that moment of being on the ground and he would taunt you with "that's all you got?" and then he would become your best friend? >> yeah, you know, there's something about muhammad i saw and everybody should know this, i was trying to court a girl and i invited her to have dinner with me. i told her i was going to be a boxer. she said, really? i seen muhammad ali on the street and he was just saying, "i'm beautiful, look at me." you know what...

You know, he gave up three and a half years of his boxing career. he was thrown out of the sport for three and a half years for his refusal to fight in the vietnam war. at what would have been his peak. what could he have done had he stayed in the ring? i suppose a fair question to ask is would his influence have grown as great as it was. it was not that but perhaps him even greater in the mind of so many? >> caller: things happen for a reason in life, and you don't know how great he would have been had he didn't have the break. in life, you know, in life it it's -- [ inaudible ] i'm very than...

Well. the clintons have weighed in. we're waiting for a statement from the press, we have not yet gotten that yet. we do expect it at some point. right now on social media especially it has just been one after another. there are a ton of hash tags that are out there right now that have gotten at least 500,000 mentions if not more. some are a million if not more, go, to cassius clay, to muhammad ali. all sorts of quotes famous, he said i hated every minute of training but don't quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. one of the many quotes by this man who has touched so m...

We never even had a sit down argument or anything. the guy was a lovely guy to me. just in the ring i was trying to knock out everybody. >> i want to interject something. >> tim, go ahead. >> muhammad ali had in my opinion three very good close friends for 40 years. number one was george foreman. number two, chris christopherson and billy crystal. and i said why do you like george foreman so well? and he said because we both love god. >> when was the last moment that you had to connect with ali? >> "sports illustrated" named their legacy award after muhammad ali and i went into louisville to t...