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Muhammad Ali -"This is your Life"

VIS VITALIS 2016. 12. 24. 16:38



Muhammad Ali

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." 
쉰 살때의 세계관이  스무살때의 세계관과 같다면 30년을 허비한 것이다.



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Muhammad Ali


Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali NYWTS.jpg
Ali in 1967
BornCassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
January 17, 1942
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJune 3, 2016 (aged 74)
Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of deathSeptic shock
Resting placeCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Monuments
Other names
  • The Greatest
  • The People's Champion
  • The Louisville Lip
EducationCentral High School (1958)[2]
ReligionIslam (Sufism[a])
Criminal chargeDraft evasion[3]
Criminal penaltyFive years in prison (not served), fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years[3]
Criminal statusConviction overturned[3]
Spouse(s)
Children9, including Laila Ali[2]
Parent(s)
Awards
Websitemuhammadali.com
Boxing career
Statistics
Rated atHeavyweight
Height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[7]
Reach78 in (198 cm)[7]
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record
Total fights61
Wins56
Wins by KO37
Losses5





Muhammad Ali (/ɑːˈliː/;[8] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.;[9] January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. He was widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.[10][11]

Cassius Clay was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training as an amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, after which he turned professional later that year. At age 22 in 1964, he won the WBA, WBC and lineal heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston in an upset. Clay then converted to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He set an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.[12][13]

In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the white establishment in the U.S. by refusing to be conscripted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.[12][14] He was eventually arrested, found guilty of draft evasion charges and stripped of his boxing titles. He successfully appealed in the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971, by which time he had not fought for nearly four years—losing a period of peak performance as an athlete. Ali's actions as a conscientious objector to the war made him an icon for the larger counterculture generation.[15][16]

Ali is regarded as one of the leading heavyweight boxers of the 20th century. He remains the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion, having won the title in 1964, 1974 and 1978. Between February 25, 1964, and September 19, 1964, Ali reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion. He is the only boxer to be named The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year six times. He was ranked as the greatest athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC. ESPN SportsCentury ranked him the third greatest athlete of the 20th century. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing matches.[17] Notable among these were the first Liston fight; the "Fight of the Century", "Super Fight II" and the "Thrilla in Manila" versus his rival Joe Frazier; and "The Rumble in the Jungle" versus George Foreman.

At a time when most fighters let their managers do the talking, Ali thrived in—and indeed craved—the spotlight, where he was often provocative and outlandish.[18][19][20] He was known for trash talking, and often freestyled with rhyme schemes and spoken word poetry, both for his trash talking in boxing and as political poetry for his activism, anticipating elements of rap and hip hop music.[21][22][23] As a musician, Ali recorded two spoken word albums and a rhythm and blues song, and received two Grammy Award nominations.[23] As an actor, he performed in several films and a Broadway musical. Ali wrote two autobiographies, one during and one after his boxing career.

As a Muslim, Ali was initially affiliated with Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam (NOI) and advocated their black separatist ideology. He later disavowed the NOI, adhering initially to Sunni Islam and later to Sufism, and supporting racial integration, like his former mentor Malcolm X. After retiring from boxing in 1981, Ali devoted his life to religious and charitable work. In 1984, Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome, which his doctors attributed to boxing-related brain injuries. As the condition worsened, Ali made limited public appearances and was cared for by his family until his death on June 3, 2016 in Scottsdale, Arizona.









Muhammad Ali: Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee














http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/04/sport/best-quotes-muhammad-ali/#




Story highlights

  • Muhammad Ali was a master of knock-out quotes
  • He could be fearsome, arrogant and inspiring

(CNN)Muhammad Ali was quick with his fists but he also knew the power of words to unsettle his rivals.

The boxing legend died Friday at the age of 74.
    Perhaps his most famous quote was made when he was a precocious 22-year old about to take on world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.
    All about Muhammad Ali

    "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see."
    The phrase was often repeated to describe his style in the ring, and became shorthand for the man who considered himself "The Greatest" before the rest of the world cottoned on.

    He could be fearsome...

    "I wrestled with an alligator, I tussled with a whale, I handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail, I'm bad man....Last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick," he said to laughs ahead of his famous "Rumble in the Jungle" but with George Foreman in 1974,
    The following year, Ali used another play on words to promote he predicted the pummeling of Joe Frazier at the "Thrilla in Manila."
    "It will be a killer and a chiller and a thriller when I get the gorilla in Manila."

    He could be arrogant

    Ali took the art of talking himself up to new levels, reminding rivals that there was only one king of the ring.
    'If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize.'
    "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."
    "Not only do I knock'em out , I pick the round."
    "I'm a poet, I'm a prophet, I'm the resurrector, I'm the savior of the boxing world. If it wasn't for me, the game would be dead."
    "It's not bragging if you can back it up."
    "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

    And he could be inspiring...

    "Don't count the days, make the days count."
    "Live every day like it's your last because someday you're going to be right."
    "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
    "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
    Ironically, he also said, "I don't like fighters who talk too much."


    http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/04/sport/best-quotes-muhammad-ali/


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