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What I Learned From The Greatest: Personal Reflections on Muhammad Ali

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It was the mid-1970s and Muhammad Ali was my new hero. To me, a grade-schooler, he was larger than life and yet so down-to-earth. My parents were in his inner circle, which gave me magical memories and personal insights on greatness. At his Deer Lake training camp in Pennsylvania and the Concord Resort Hotel in the Catskills, I got to experience the Heavyweight Champion away from the crowds. I would sit on his lap while he taught me card tricks.

Train Like A Champ

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A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Train Like A Champ – As Muhammad Ali said, “I hated every minute of training, but I said don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion.”

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.
- Muhammad Ali

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
- Muhammad Ali

I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
- Muhammad Ali

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
- Muhammad Ali

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
- Muhammad Ali

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
- Muhammad Ali