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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776 

Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.

Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.



My interest in boxing dropped off after he retired and ceased altogether when he ended up with Parkinson's.

When I was young I thought him a little brash but as I grew older I liked him more and more.
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8 years ago
He was one of my dad's childhood idols. I remember watching his 50th birthday special thinking he wasn't going to last much longer. I thought this was a pretty true statement "The strongest Muhammad Ali ever was, was when he allowed himself to be seen at his weakest."
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https://twitter.com/realmikefox/status/739084669665325057 

I don't have a twitter account. There's a great photo of Ali with Michael J Fox.
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Cheesey
8 years ago
I remember him toying with Howard Cosell, and what a hoot it was. Acting like he was gonna take off Cosell's toupee.
He was quite a showman.
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8 years ago




A great George Carlin line on Muhammad Ali.

"Government told him if he won't kill people, we won't let you beat them up"




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8 years ago

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" --Albert Einstein
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I remember that song Hoss. It didn't seem to be on the radio very often even though it was top 25.
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8 years ago
Great boxer and huge racist. He will be missed.
The world needs ditch diggers too Danny!!!
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Ali while still named Cassius Clay wrote an article for SI. It was right before his first fight with Sonny Liston. The current SI put out an edited version in this week's edition. The link to the full version is below.

Pretty good look into his mind and why he did things the way he did.


By Cassius Clay 

If I were like a lot of guys—a lot of heavyweight boxers, I mean— I'll bet you a dozen doughnuts you wouldn't be reading this story right now. If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. I'm not saying they are not good boxers. Most of them—people like Doug Jones and Ernie Terrell—can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them. And the reason for that is because they cannot throw the jive. Cassius Clay is a boxer who can throw the jive better than anybody you will probably ever
meet anywhere. And right there is why I will meet Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world next week in Miami Beach.



Where do you think I would be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public sit up and take notice? I would be poor, for one thing, and I would probably be down in Louisville, Ky., my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying "yes suh" and "no suh" and knowing my place. Instead of that, I'm saying I'm one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, which is true, and that I'm the greatest
fighter in the world, which I hope and pray is true. Now the public has heard me talk enough and they're saying to me, "Put up or shut up." This fight with Liston is truly a command performance. And that's exactly the way I planned it.



somebody always wants to know if I'm really like the way I act. Well, of course I'm like I act or else I couldn't act this way. But what I have done is to exaggerate the natural way I am. I wouldn't sit around my house shouting and carrying on if it was just me and my folks, but I would if there was anybody else there to hear me. I do that for the reason I've already said: to attract attention and to get rich. I don't really love to fight, you see, but as long as I'm doing it I sure don't want to do it for free.



I remember one day in Louisville I was riding a bus reading in the paper about Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. It was right after I had won the Olympic gold medal in Rome and had turned professional, and I was confident then I could beat either one of them if I had the chance. But I knew I wouldn't get the chance because nobody much had ever heard of me. So I said to myself, how am I going to get a crack at the title? Well, on that bus I realized I'd never get it just sitting around thinking about it. I knew I'd have to start talking about it—I mean really talking, screaming and yelling and acting like some kind of a nut. I thought if I did that people would pretty soon hear enough of that and insist I meet whomever was champion. I would be like Georgeous George, the wrestler, who got so famous by being trashy and exaggerating everything and making people notice him.



There's more to the story.
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