Dear Editor,
Muhammad Ali is dead we learned!
Many would eulogize him in their own way; however, all I can do for him now is to reminisce on one or two of his famous and apt quotes. I love his sportsmanship and also some of his daring words which I share below. It is the best tribute I can give for the Greatest who could “float like a butterfly” and “sting like a bee”.
Here is the boxing legend in his own words:
“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
“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.”
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”
RIP. Thanks for the memories. I was never interested in boxing until Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) came on the scene. He was not only a boxer but also a philosopher.
Yours faithfully,
Rooplall Dudhnath
