"Late in the evening, long after the fight, long after Sinatra gave a fight eulogy for [Ali] in the showroom and all the people applauded, I walked into the men's room on the first floor at Caesars... and there was an old Afro-American gentlemen handling the towels and everything else.

And I said to the guy , 'You mind if I ask you a question? Did you bet on this fight?'

He said, 'Yes I did.'

'You mind telling me who you bet on?'

And he looked at me and he said, 'I bet on Muhammad Ali.'

'You mind telling me why?'

He said, 'Why? Because he gave me my dignity.'"
- Jerry Izenberg, Muhammad & Larry (2009)