"I think Terrell will catch hell at the sound of the bell. He's going around saying that he's a championship-fighter, but when he meets me he fall 20 pound lighter. He thinks that he's the real heavy weight champ but when he meets me, he'll just be a tramp Now I'm not sayin' just to be funny, but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money."
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About Ernie Terrell before their February 1967 boxing match, as quoted in Ali: The Official Portrait of "The Greatest" of All Time (2013) By Nancy J. Hajeski
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