Actually I think the opposite would be better "He died... but he will never be gone..."

I want to b like him truly.bodyand 💓

Thank You Pok

That must have been awful.

I was never a big fan of Billy Crystal. I liked him in the Analyze this and that movies and City Slickers but that's about it. Despite that, the more I hear him speak the more I can tell what a decent human being he is

You selling the hat? Lol

Years ago in Las Vegas my father produced a movie called champions forever about the five heavyweight champions of the world, my father couldn't make the meeting on time and asked me to go in his place, I already lived in Las Vegas so I met all the five heavyweight champions at Jonny tacos gym in Vegas, I spent a week with all of them, my children were much younger and got to meet all of them, Ali was there but quiet, the most memorable moments were spent with Joe Frazier

Auri Emma

If you want to make a lot of money, you should sell it.

😑...dont sell it bro

Thank you, my friend, for adding your own experience.

This is a true story: Muhammad Ali was on a flight in the United States. As the plane was taxiing to the end of the runway, the Flight Attendant reminded him to fasten his seat belt. "Superman doesn't need a seat belt," replied Ali. "Superman doesn't need a plane either", replied the Flight Attendant. The world heavyweight boxing champion duly strapped himself in. Were YOU that Flight Attendant? 🙂

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yes because you know either of them.

@@vision821k4 why be an arse?

Isn't it wonderful to hear a Man show admiration for another Man out of Love & Respect?? I give Billy Crystal a million accolades for his touching tribute to Muhammad Ali -- a great Man! Thank you Brother w/ Love⚘ DD 🕊

On my fourth listen 😂👍🏼💪🏽💪🏽

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Great story. I was plucked out of cali and spent 2 and 3 grade being bused into a different school zone in Louisville. During a school assembly Ali showed up because some of his nephews and nieces were there. I was the token cute white kid on the front row. He looks down during q and a. Says You....you down there. Mickey Mouse....what's your question? I didn't understand the gravity at that age. But I do now.

Ya right

@@batchelerjr ok

Wow!

you should watch Graham Chapman's Eulogy by John Cleese.I promise you`ll love it. :D (strange thing to say about a funeral when you think about it)

This one, and also Tom Hanks' eulogy for Michael Clarke Duncan, my two favourite eulogies.

Thank you !

George Carlin

[Q no

At that funeral for Mohammed Ali-- people of all different races--religions--sitting next to each other--laughing together--so why can’t we do this in our everyday life--I don’t care who you are-- how you pray--we are all the creation of God--and that’s it--he made us equal--how he still loves us through all our faults--who knows--so however you say Go in peace to love and serve the Lord--how about we try it--Mohammed Ali you were the greatest--you said what you meant and you meant what you said

“And he didn’t”. Ali 🐐

What a great talk,May his soul rest in peace ameeenn

@Too easy Not a good quote indeed! There is only one truly God; the Creator of all things; and Jesus Christ the Only begotten Son of God, our Lord and Savior.

@Too easy True, there is only one God, the Father Almighty and Jesus Christ His Only Begotten Son. Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins. If you have a Bible please read it. Jesus Christ can be found in the New Testament. The only way to the Father (God) is to the Son (Jesus Christ).

It’s a figure of speech, I doubt he meant it to be offensive

@Too easy you really missed the whole point of this speech, huh?

absolutely agree

Good ear gentlemen,fluent,sharp. Most don't recognize a truly gifted public speaker

Amen: That was first class!

..how..? ..hit me back! ..not that you follow yourself!

MASTER CLASS!!! Seriously! This was clearly prepared in many ways but effortlessly given extemporaneously!! Man... and just beautiful words at that but littered with the truth of experience... Even if you had a grudge against the man in life - Billy would have made you love him in his passing - framing him in the light we should look at all people - Their good deeds!!! SO DOPE!!!!!!

Peekwe

All lies he was a typical black man chip on his shoulder and a racist

@@allforthewinner 😊😊

...but these tears I can't hold inside Loosing you would end my life you see 'cause you mean that much to me

I've never met a man who didn't cry.

This was great but Michael Jordan’s speech at Kobe’s memorial had me crying

So very beautifully stated!

It was a great man he was a great man everybody knew that

me too !😢❤️👍

Same here.. Find myself gravitating to this video every now and then...

Why would I want to do that?

The best eulogy ever! Thanx Billy, R I P CHAMP!!

@@RSTI191 Me too - great eulogy of a great man by a great comedian

@@hestonhutaue1214 llllllllllllllllllllll no to to n no it was

Well Said!!

It sucked,he Bashed Trumps wall

Stripping Ali of his title was simply an act of revenge, a pitiful, spiteful emotion, it didn’t however take away the fact that through determination and hard work he won the right to be awarded a ……gong! A gong is a piece of trash that collects dust, nothing more in reailty. He rose above it and for that he deserves a louder applause than when he won the thing.

@@sosuapimp8449 Trump Is the opposite, of these traits, he likes to divide.

@@billpetersen298 sometimes you have to be divisive. People need to be told what they need to hear,instead of told what they want to hear

For sure, that was great

what a beautiful memory

If u say so @Bill Powell

@four eleven forty-four why... That sounds like Ali.

four eleven forty-four Soooo is that suppose to make us think he's lying or?....

four eleven forty-four maybe he was on the bus , was it a bus carrying one person ? Lol

Yessss. #PRICELESS

He's still influencing lifes. Ali is immortal.

Indeed...a beautiful statement in a speech filled with beautiful and poignant moments from start to finish.

@David McFrost who cares about your puny view. He has millions of followers. And you are just another keyboard warrior living under your parents cupboard. And that fake religion you speak of has 2.5 BILLION followers around the world. Your argument is as small as your IQ.

@David McFrost Just look at your crap triggered essays, everyone knows who is the keyboard warrior here. And he didn't abandon your Jesus, he just found the right path. The right way. And all his glory came to him not as Cassius clay, but as "Mohammed Ali". Because of that right path he chose. He was never segregated racially in Islam. He lived and died as a good man, like how a Muslim should be. Dogs bark at the moon all the time, but moon will always be majestic and it never fades, that is the analogy between you and Mohammed "The greatest" Ali.

Well said by Billy Crystal

Well said sir. 👏👏🙏

he will be forever the greatest. No one will ever match him. RIP GOAT

ALI WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY OUR ENERY COOPER AND WOULD NEVER HAD GOT UP BUT THE BELL SAVED ALI AND WHEN THE SECONDS GOT IN THE RING THEY SPLIT ALIS GLOVES AND THATS WHAT CUT HENERYCOOPERS EYES IF THEY DIDNT DO THAT HENRY WOULD HAVE BEEN UNDISPUTED WORLD CHAMPION BUT THE USA CHEATSED HENERY OUT OF HIS TITTLT

@@roymansfield3738 that didn't happen it was a boxing myth made up by the British public watch the real fight it never happened, you can watch the fight online for yourself and you will see it never happened, Plus Cooper's eyes always cut open he had very sharpe bones over his eyes it lost him many fights

Mashallah

He was an example bro

charles manson was a gift from god too. every friggin person is.

@@axelpalacios9232 was he sis...lol

Really ? Why?

@@garystarkey726 lol ok

I totally agree🥰

@@barbarawarren5850 - Thank you - I know you'll only just have noticed the post. I'd really be troubled if you'd been pondering over it for a time. But yes, it was really good - I'm about to watch it again.

Couldn't agree more, great speech. Much respect to Billy.

'35 years after he stopped fighting he is still the champion of the world". What a great line, couldn't have described Ali any better than that

Amen,he said it with love

I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1990. He shook my hand and gave me an autograph. As we were shaking hands my mind immediately thought about how many people that hand knocked out and how many important people around the world also shook it.

He is a treasure to the world at large. I'm a South African never been anywhere except my own country. But I watch Ali interviews and fights on repeat. And he has a special place in my heart 💖💓

Another is Kevin Costner speaking at Whitney Houston's funeral.

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@@lumberman1955 That one had me crying like she was a family member.

This one, by Rabbi Michael Lerner: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gL52q6hlm9PYZJs.html 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It rivals Maya Angelou’s recording for Nelson Mandela’s passing.

Great observation Warren and nicely put.

The other way round. The Jewish man honouring the Muslim man. All the same good observation

It's a quote from Billy Crystal's speech, describing a time when Muhammad Ali went to Israel to honor his Jewish friend who was receiving an honor.

Ali never went to Israel!!

Huh?

WELL SAID INDEED

I’ll second that!

Then you haven’t seen Howard cossells tribute

Bruno Mispireta still in tears! 💞💞💞. LOVE makes the world.......

Jesus is better.

@John Doe :))) Sometimes one word response is mightier then a nucleer bomb. Nice aim bro. .

He was a draft dodger and he turned his back on God to serve allah and i promise you if he didn't turn back to God before he died he is burning in hell

@@haroldluke6906 God is the same as Allah

@@hakangoze5790 hub

Touché from me too. Mesmerising.

Billy Crystal is a "class act" - just like Ali . 👍

Sadiya Khan ☺👍

That eulogy was just two short years ago. Yet in our current cultural-political atmosphere, I fear that those words are falling on deaf ears.

He was speaking metaphorically, of course.

Sadiya Khan (profound)

Sadiya Khan to

He was a GOOD MAN that happened to be a Muslim.

@@Priest3733 and u r a jerk as u r

@@723743 And you, know NOTHING about respect.

@@Priest3733 his peace message was based off of Islam , that's why his message is so centred around peace with everyone

@@Priest3733 He didnt happened to be a muslim he converted to a muslim.

Wow i cry because ali was more than a boxer. He was love world wide all religions and races. He was a humanitarian. He never shy away from affliction. Few people on this planet that didn't need money to make him rich.

@@danrichardson60 True

Pure true friendship

Ali wasn't education smart but you can tell how bright he was by his whip sharp sense of humor. Meeting the Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos he actually said, "I saw your wife. You're not as dumb as you look." To be able to pull that off and make a ruthless tyrant laugh - that's brilliant.

So so true

Sorry

that's not really a "meeting" ....your pushing it -did he take you to dinner?

@@RobertJamesChinneryH you are correct it was not a meeting but I didn't say I had a metting with the man I said I along with 10-15 of us kids "met" him, learn to read dumb ass...........

@@RobertJamesChinneryH Are you so pathetically envious that you attempted to degrade the nature of a child's meeting with an American icon?

Shutup Robert.And you start a sentence with a capital,dumb shit!

Nice story

Billy has eulogized his best friend (Robin Williams) his hero (Mickey Mantle) and his big brother (Muhammad Ali). Can't be easy but he does such a magnificent job

Yeah

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@Hello Allen how are you doing

@onlyfacts Is this how you build a bridge, or are you being an a**hole?

@onlyfacts It's a freaking quote based on what Ali represented and seriously, do you live behind a wall or out open in the street? Because if you live behind walls you are being an asshole.

@onlyfacts In June of 2016? Before Trump became the POTUS? Wow!

@onlyfacts Oh, now I get it, you feel the need to bring Trump and your useless opinion into someone's funeral.Get a life. "I have a wall and Billy has a wall and our nation needs a eallt" I'm assuming "eallt" is wall.

@onlyfacts I hope you feel fulfilled, but if you seriously think Billy Crystal, after losing his good friend, went out of his way to throw a jab (pun intended) at Trump before he was elected POTUS, who freakin cares? Again, get a life.

What was the poem?

Omg it would have been great if you guys could have gotten a picture with him. But his presence was something you will never forget 👌

@@CAM0244 dog cameras barely existed back then tf 😂

So Cool..thanks for sharing:)

how much was he paid for ridiculing a person at their funeral?

@@RobertJamesChinneryH You really don't get life, do you? Pity.

@@RobertJamesChinneryH fool

@@RobertJamesChinneryH Zero - the same as you're getting for appearing here. Nitwit.

Hello Carol, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

@Richie Levoi

Yep. Billy could make up a story and tell it like it really happened, and we would all believe him. Every word was perfect without a stumble. I'm not too sure whether a computer would have been this good!

Hello how are you doing!

Hello How are you doing today ?

Billy Crystal is a very meaningful speaker.

Couldn’t have said that better

Absolutely! I hung onto every word!

Just now seeing your comment, 10months before mine (noting similar). He should take the tremendous pay cut an teach speech:):)

bugder I certainly agree with u - Awesome eulogu from the great Billy BUT awesome comment from YoU - 👏

Fox news

I can't recall a better one. Find the one Tom Hanks did for Michael Clarke Duncan,..it's pretty moving and funny (odd combination BTW) too.

Hello How are you doing today ?

Yeah everybody heard it. Thanks for clearing it up for us

Made me laugh hard out 🤣🤣

Mine too.

@Hello Goffas how are you doing

I thought the same thing--this may be the _only_ funeral I've ever watched where someone delivered a eulogy that had the audience _cracking up, laughing_! RIP to TGOAT (The Greatest Of All Time).

The greatest of all time? It wasn't Rocky Marciano's funeral.

BloodofPatriots Granted, Rocky had a better record...but, records and stats don't always make one person the greatest. This article explains some of the reasons Ali was called "The Greatest," by people _other than himself_. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/06/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-boxer.html?_r=0

***** Marciano is the ONLY heavyweight champion to retire undefeated. He truly was the best of his generation on each and every day he fought, a claim no other heavyweight champion can make -- not even Ali.

BloodofPatriots Agreed, but as I said before, it's not always the stats that make a person the Greatest. Why Ali was given that honorific, I'll never completely understand.

Taylor

The answer is not at all, when Donald Trump dies there will be people who say that he was the greatest president ever. Hell, he's not even dead and they are already saying it but just cause a few hundred or thousands of people say it, doesn't make it so. Don't hate the man (Ali) but I do hate that they still say he was the greatest of all time, when he wasn't, he was very, very good but far from the greatest.

Dennis Robertson Muhammad Ali is the Greatest. He was the ONLY Heavyweight Champion of the World! That meant he was known and recognized on the streets of every capital and major city on earth not just the USA and Europe. No other person comes close except the Queen of England, Princess Diana.... But the word fighter if left to boxing would be too small. The fight he fought gave courage to punks like Donald Trump to be able to resist going to Vietnam. He was willing to pay a fine and go to prison for his beliefs. Give up fame and fortune. He did not depend on a deferment like punkass Donald Trump or Dick Cheney. He did not run off to Mexico like John Wayne did to avoid WW2. Vietnam was an unjust war based on lies and racism. There are entire high school classes of boys drafted and dead. There are homeless shelters full of Vietnam era vets. I know firsthand because I was in one of them. Ali stood up and sacrificed himself and this was important to eventually bring an end to what essentially was another opportunity for the USA to mass murder Asians defending their country. What you wrote about Trump is worthless nonsense. Shows what a threat the USA has become for having so many ignorant people having too much power. The only people who will call Trump the greatest will be clueless Users who voted for him. There will be no such sentiment coming from South America, Africa, Asia and yes Europe..especially Britain. Heavyweight champion because he fought for the little people and spoke truth to power against men too afraid to go against him one on one.

He was....he is missed. 😔

Dennis, Donald Trump cheated and faked a medical report for not going to Vietnam, but this guy stood like a man and rejected the crazy war.

george fish I already beat you Set Dog Stank. Stay out of civilized conversation. When we want to know how to fart the Star Spangeled Banner we will call you.

Muhammad Ali

Hello Pamela, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

Indeed a GOAT doesn't question himself if republicans buy sneakers ;)

Here here

THIS IS A FUNERAL. WERE NOT COMPARING WHO THE GOAT IS.

Moetoosaucy8thgrade Good for you Brother. Have a great day.

Two different sports

And he was not a bad singer as well.