30 of Muhammad Ali's Best Quotes

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Muhammad Ali, considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer, died late Friday night in a Phoenix-area hospital at 74 years old.

Here is a list of some of his best quotes (in no particular order):

1. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't.

2. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

3. "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat."

4. "Don’t count the days; make the days count."

5. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it." Jesse Jackson said this as early as 1983, according to the Associated Press, and Ali used it in his 2004 book.


6. “It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

7. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

8. “If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.”

9. “Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.”

10. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

11. "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."


12. "I'm so mean, I make medicine sick."

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

14. “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.”

15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

16. "A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

17. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

18. "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"


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19. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

20. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”

21. "A man who has no imagination has no wings."

22. "He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!"

23. "I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

24. “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.”

25. "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

“How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!” #MuhammadAlipic.twitter.com/8rrmqL1fUP
— Muhammad Ali (@MuhammadAli) April 6, 2016
26. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”

27. "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."

28. "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

29. “I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.”

30. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

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SHANE BLACK HAS NO REGRETS OVER IRON MAN 3’S MANDARIN

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BY CHRIS TILLY Writer-director Shane Black says that while he feels bad about some comic book fans not liking his take on the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, he nevertheless has no regrets about the choice, and would do it again given the chance.

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Far from being an actual person in the movie, the Mandarin was revealed to be a character played by a British stage actor, and that bait-and-switch so annoyed fans that Black believes Marvel made the ‘Hail to the King’ short just to appease them.

But he feels little remorse about his take on the character.

“We may have done our job a bit too well in a way because we succeeded in actually having a surprise in the middle of a big summer movie where you normally know virtually everything about it before you go in” he explained. “And when I say we did our job too well it meant some of the fans felt fooled. They felt I think that they'd been led down one path and then sold a bill of goods. It's hard. Because I want to please the fans... but in this case I thought and we all thought that it was just a very interesting and very layered decision to take the Mandarin [in].

Iron Man 3 Director Shane Black Says 'Real' Mandarin Was Marvel's Apology to Fans - IGN News
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Black continues: “We had this think tank – A.I.M. – from the comics and ‘OK, what if this was a cobbled together sort of boogeyman?' That they'd researched - they actually had data spit out about the various things that people would find frightening and they would concoct from this. This sort of straw man terrorist. This paper tiger. And then push him on the internet.

"I thought that felt modern, it felt interesting, it felt textured. I thought to myself, ‘Hey Whiplash in Iron Man 2 – he doesn't look like Whiplash in the comics, people like it when you trade up and kind of shake it up a little.’ And the truth is people did – I mean we made a lot of money with the movie, but there is a hardcore niche of fandom that was genuinely disappointed; they wanted to see their version. And for that I feel bad. I still like the choice we made.”

We then asked Black whether he'd adapt the character more faithfully if he could make the movie again…

“Of course not,” came the response. “The minute you start to govern your creative impulses based on anticipation of someone else's response or their expectations then you're going to fail. You're going to fail them too. Because you're not going to surprise anybody – you’re going to be busy second-guessing what other people want and indulging that people-pleasing side of yourself.”

So did you like Black's take on the character? Let us know in the comments below, and look out for his new film – The Nice Guys – in UK cinemas this Friday (June 3).

Transformers: The Last Knight

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Transformers: The Last Knight is an upcoming 2017 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fifth installment of the live-action Transformers film series and a sequel to 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction. This will be the final Transformers film directed by Michael Bay. Mark Wahlberg will reprise his role from the previous film, alongside Josh Duhamel, reprising his role as William Lennox from the first three films.[1]

The film is scheduled to be released on June 23, 2017 in 3D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, and 2D.
In March 2015, Deadline.com reported that Paramount Pictures was in talks with Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) to pitch new ideas for the Transformers franchise's future installments. The studio intends to do what James Cameron and 20th Century Fox had been doing to spawn three new Avatar sequels and what Disney is doing to revive Star Wars with sequels and spin-offs and to have their own cinematic universe for Transformers similar to Marvel's Marvel Cinematic Universe and Warner Bros.' DC Extended Universe. Goldsman will be the head of the future projects and will work with franchise director Michael Bay, executive producer Steven Spielberg and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to organize a "writer's room" that would incubate ideas for potential Transformers sequels, prequels and spin-offs. The writer's room members includes Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, (Ant-Man), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Zak Penn (Pacific Rim 2), Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Kirkman however left the room just after one day of presence due to a throat surgery. In July 2015, Akiva Goldsman & Jeff Pinkner were announced to write the script for the film. However, on November 20, due to Goldsman's commitments on creating a writer's room for G.I. Joe and Micronauts properties, Paramount began to negotiate with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man) as well as Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down), to write the film.

After Transformers: Age of Extinction, Bay decided not to direct any other future Transformers films but in early January 2016, in an interview with Rolling Stone he confirmed that he would return to direct the fifth film and that it would be his last Transformers film. Paramount Pictures will spend $80 million for production in Michigan of which Paramount will receive $21 million of state incentives for filming in the state, under agreements entered into before the state legislature eliminated the film office incentive program in July 2015. In April 2016, Paramount hired cinematographer Jonathan Sela. On May 17, Bay revealed the official title of the film to be The Last Knight on his Instagram account, along with a production video showing a close-up of what is presumably Optimus Prime's face, with him having purple eyes instead of blue and his face mostly discolored. The official Twitter account shows a 19-second short video in morse code saying "I’M COMING FOR YOU MAY 31". On May 31, 2016, It was revealed that Megatron will be returning for the sequel. Voice actor Peter Cullen has high hopes that The Last Knight and its sequel will go back to more of their original roots.