New Delhi, June 1 -- "Stick it."

"Keep dancing."

Muhammad Ali never did just one thing. If he's skipping, then he's also talking, offering defiance, poetry, prediction.

The video is from October 1974, days before he fights George Foreman in Zaire.

Rope taps ground, sweat drips, words rain.

"I'll be dancing all night."

Of course once the fight starts, he decides instinctively not to dance and leans against the ropes and fools everyone and exhausts Foreman but that's another story. But in his prime, he was shuffling, circling, leaning, darting, swaying, dodging, ducking, as if he was moving to music.

We're always watching hands (and faces) in sport, the swishing bat, the dexterous racket, the feinting fist, but the legs are the soldi...