Leila Smith
Leila Smith
ask five food four good hear hospital man maybe ray ride sick
Now, for four or five years, I don't get nothing, I don't hear nothing. And I don't ask why. Ray had been sick only one day in his life. Pneumonia. Maybe food poisoning. It was before a fight. I had to go to Philadelphia because he wouldn't go to the hospital. He called the hospital a good place to die. He didn't ride elevators, either. Ray is not a man to be trapped.
call degrees dropped felt guess night people ray rounds sat whatever
It was 104 degrees that night. It was 130 degrees ringside, that's what they said. I was there. It felt like it. Whatever you call 'great' nowadays, I guess Ray was that then. I went to his fights. I wasn't superstitious. When Ray sat between rounds that night, I dropped my head. People said, 'Why do you drop your head? You crying?' I was praying.
care promised ray son took work
Ray had promised me back in 1940 that I would never have to work again. And I never had to. My son always took care of me.
bought buy hard men rough saw women
He wanted to buy me a Cadillac. But I only saw hard men and rough women in those cars. So he bought me a Buick.