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He’s so slow,” Crystal said in his Ali voice. “I’m so fast I can turn off the lights and be in my bed before the room gets dark.” The impression brought a moment of levity to a series of speeches from a long list of [notable figures](http://time.com/4365055/muhammad-ali-bill-clinton-eulogy/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter) including former President Bill Clinton apparently chosen by Ali before his [death last week](http://time.com/4357493/muhammad-ali-dead-best-quotes/?xid=homepage). “He decided, very young, to write his own life story,” said Clinton. “He decided that he would not be ever disempowered.” ## Transcript And so I felt him. And now there he was just a few feet from me. I couldn't stop looking at him and seemed to like glow. And he was like in slow motion, his amazing face smiling and laughing. I was seated a few seats from him on the dais. And in the room all of these athletes in their individual sports, great ones Geno Marcetti of the Baltimore Colts, Frank O'Harris of the Stealers, Archie Griffin who had won the Heisman from Ohio State, literary legends, Neil Simon, George Plympton, all in the day's fawning over Ali who then looked at me [ LAUGH ] with an expression that seemed to say What is Joel Gray doing here? [ LAUGH ] Mr Shap introduced me as one of our least closest and dearest friends. Two people clapped. [ LAUGH ] My wife and the agent. [ LAUGH ] I rose, Ali's still staring at me. I pass right behind him, got to the podium, went right into the Cosell. Hello everyone, Howard Cosell coming live to you from Zaire. Some will pronounce it Zehr, they're wrong. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] It got big laughs and then I went into the Ali. Everybody's talking about George Foreman. I want to talk about George Foreman. George Foreman's ugly. He's just so slow. George was slow. I come up, voop voop voop and then I arupadoop, I roopadoop George and I'm still fast at 33 years of age. I'm so fast I can turn out the lights and be in my bed before the room gets dark. [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGHTER ] [ APPLAUSE ] Howard, I'm announcing tonight that I got new religious beliefs. From now on, I wanna be known as Izzy Izkowitz. I am now an Orthodox Jew, Izzy Izkowitz. I am the greatest of all time. [ SOUND ] Applause. The audience exploded, see, nobody had ever done him before. 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