RIP Muhammad Ali

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He was once the most recognizable person on earth. He was the biggest sports star when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's.

RIP
 
Keep floating with the butterflies Mohammed.

He's one of the first athletes I gravitated to as a real youngin. Him and naturally Bobby Orr, playing knee hockey as a 5 yr old with my dad.

He was the consummate trash talker, but said it with a sense of grace and dignity not seen prior or since.

RIP
 
He was the greatest, no doubt about it. I remember my uncle talking about going to see him fight Liston in Maine of all places.
 
The Greatest.

Simple as that. We are a hell of a lot poorer with him gone.
 
Dwight Schrute said:
Keep floating with the butterflies Mohammed.

He's one of the first athletes I gravitated to as a real youngin. Him and naturally Bobby Orr, playing knee hockey as a 5 yr old with my dad.

He was the consummate trash talker, but said it with a sense of grace and dignity not seen prior or since.

RIP
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He was also the consummate trash talker who backed it up.
 
Dodges 23 punches in ten seconds, then taunts with an audacious shimmy. (Exhibition with Michael Dokes - Ali at age 35)



Just awesome.

RIP Ali.

BostonTim
 
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In 1981, Muhammad Ali was passing by a building in which a man stood on the 9th floor, threatening to commit suicide. After the police asked him to help, Ali was able to persuade the man to come off the ledge.


BostonTim
 
A true legend. Will they check for tau and CTE? The Liston fight and first Frazier fight were especially epic. I assumed he would lose to Liston and Foreman a decade later. He was the greatest.
 
RIP you were great childhood memory
 
RIP to the one of the most iconic athletes ever - known in every corner of the world. Early in his career, he used unprecedented speed and reflexes for a big man and was rarely hit. Later in his career, he got hit a lot, but could take a punch (to his later detriment) as well as anyone in history, and got by on savvy and enormous heart.

It's a shame that his anti-war stance cost him 3 prime years of his career, but the dignity and conviction with which he carried it out, and the way he fought his way back from the time off, with somewhat diminished skills, are part of what make him a legend.
 
vertex11 said:
A true legend. Will they check for tau and CTE? The Liston fight and first Frazier fight were especially epic. I assumed he would lose to Liston and Foreman a decade later. He was the greatest.
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I think undoubtedly he sustained brain damage from his later fights. The change was really dramatic if you look at clips of how slow he talked before the Holmes fight, compared to just a couple years earlier, and then it accelerated.

It's probably up to his family whether they want to donate his brain.
 
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Tom Brady

“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.”

One of my favorite quotes and one of my favorite pictures... Rest in peace Mr. Ali
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Hoping Howard Cosell is there to greet him as his enters the afterlife. The two of them were an amazing duo.


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Get past the first minute of this one... some great stuff here.

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