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What does it mean?
Ali expresses a desire to experience life fully, including combat and intimacy, within a short timeframe.
In plain terms
He wants to spend two days fighting and loving.
What can you take from it?
Embrace life's experiences with passion and intensity.

Where it applies

  • motivational speech
  • personal ambition
  • interview

Putting it to work

  • pursue passions actively
  • live fully

Questions to consider

  • What would you do with limited time?
  • How do you define a life well-lived?

Another view

The quote can be interpreted as overly aggressive or objectifying.

More from Muhammad Ali

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  2. Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

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  3. I hit him so hard that I made him cry. He looked at me and said, 'I'm going to get you for that.' I respected him then, and I respect him now.

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