Muhammad was always one off my heroes.

more than just a sportsman.

humanitarian
politician etc.

anyone seen when we were Kings? the story off the rumble in the jungle.

rest in peace king, you were a giant now walking amongst giants.

My son is 14 and next season fights in the national schoolboy championships. He trains 5 times a week plus goes running with me every other day.

His aim is to get into the GB squad within the next 12 months and make the 2020 Olympics when he will be 18.

After that the plan is to turn pro and win a world title at Selhurst Park! (gotta think big!)

Boxing is a hard and lonely sport ans so to help keep focus his wall is full of Ali posters and quotes. Nobody seemed to do inspiration like Ali could.

Below are some of the Ali quotes from my lad’s bedroom wall.

'Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.'

'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.'

'Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.'

'If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize.'

'He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.'

'The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.'

'I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

RIP legend.

PS-My boys new boxing shorts – COYP!

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"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

Never did like Superman..

"You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead"

Stan Laurel

Great quotes... cheers, v inspirational... and your boy has some cool shorts. Good work eagle.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

Errrr no.

This is a public forum for debate. If people can air their tributes then people who didn't like his racist separatist views can air comments as well.

Out of a request I stopped commenting yesterday but it really is a form of censorship to tell people when you think it's alright to comment and what is respectful.

If people want a tribute only thread then that's something that's got to be set up specifically under that agreed understanding.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Here's my tribute;

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Here's my tribute.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

He made so many quotes he was going to contradict himself a bit somewhere.

Barry Mcguigan's programme shown now and again on ITV4 I think is worth a view if anyone doesn't know how great and adaptable he was to win the big fights vs Foreman and Fraizier.

COYP

Yer onto a hiding there bruv!

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This is great