The Greatest (1977)

Roger E. Mosley: Sonny Liston

Quotes 

• Cassius Clay : Sonny Liston! Sonny Liston! Attention, the true heavyweight champion is here. I've been lookin' for you all over! I want you. Get all your money off the crap table. I bet you, I'll whip you right now! I'm too fast for you! Sucker! I say you ain't nothin'. Pickin' Floyd Patterson. Well, why don't you face me, says my mother? So big. I will destroy you. I will bet you all the money you got. Right here, right now. Right now, I'd knock you out, sucker! Right here. You and me. This is Cassius Clay! The Greatest fighter in the history of all boxin'. You are nothin'. You are nothin'. You hit me, you can't whip me, sucker. I'm tryin' to tell ya, you can't duck me forever. You can't duck me forever. You know who I am. Floyd Patterson. You knocked him out once. You'll knock him out again. But, I'm the one that you don't won't.

  Sonny Liston : You're a fag.

  Cassius Clay : A faggot? I got somethin' for you. I got somethin' for you. That's right. Everybody's watchin'.

  Sonny Liston : They don't ever see you with no ladies, you are a faggot.

  Cassius Clay : Don't see me with no ladies? I see you got two pretty ones here. That's why you gonna get whooped, sucker.

  Sonny Liston : Why don't you stop acting like a fool. You are embarrassing colored folks.

  Cassius Clay : Embarrassing colored folks? Is that what you are? You the heavyweight champion, representin' us, lookin' like you look. I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm givin' you 24 hours to saddle your horse up and ride outta Las Vegas. Saddle up your horse and be outta town!