February 25, 1964

"I'm so great I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned 22 years old. I MUST be the Greatest. I told the world I talk to God every day. If God's with me can't nobody be against me. I shook up the WORLD. I KNOW God, I know the REAL god!"

(At around 7:15 of the clip below, Cassius brings Sam Cooke into the ring - "that man's the greatest rock and roll singer in the world... and we both pretty." Also, one thing I'd never noticed before - Robert Deniro reffed this fight.)