“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see. Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t.”
Who we came to know as Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky.
During the 74 years that he was with us, Ali rocked the world as a heavyweight champion in boxing, philanthropist and activist. Often controversial, he was also inspiring and demonstrated a stunning belief in himself.
In 1964, Sonny Liston was the World Heavyweight Champion. Although Cassius Clay was the top contender for the title, he was the 7-1 underdog. Yet, he taunted Liston saying things like he was a “the big ugly bear,” smelled like one and “after I beat him I’m going to donate him to the zoo.”
Before the fight, Clay’s pulse, usually at 54, was measured at 120.
Some wondered if his behavior was from fear and questioned if he would show up for the fight.
Then, after a monumental upset with Clay as the victor, he declared:
“Eat your words. I am the greatest! I shook up the world. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.”
At age 22, he became the youngest boxer to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion… a distinction he held until Mike Tyson broke that record in 1986.
May Ali’s words inspire you to greatness and believing in yourself.
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”
“A man who has no imagination has no wings.”
“Impossible is just a 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 potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep condition, things begin to happen.
“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”
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