Muhammad ali boxer biography of barack obama
Muhammad ali boxer biography of barack obama book!
Muhammad ali boxer biography of barack obama president
Obama: What Muhammad Ali meant to me
Barack Obama | Special for USA TODAY Sports
In 2010, in celebration of Muhammad Ali's 50 years on the world stage, President Barack Obama penned for USA TODAY Sports the following essay on what Ali has meant to him:
It was the winter of 1959, six months before he would take the sport of boxing by storm at the Rome Olympics, and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
was on the move. Rising at 4 in the morning, before the first glimmer of daylight broke the horizon, Clay would put on his sweats, lace up a pair of old steel-toed Army work boots, and run out into the biting cold. He would crisscross his beloved Louisville, often racing the school bus for 20 blocks down Chestnut Street.
“Why doesn’t he ride to school like everybody else?” one student asked.
Muhammad ali boxer biography of barack obama
“He’s crazy,” replied one of Clay’s classmates. “He’s as nutty as can be.”
As the world would come to know, that young man would always chart his own course. I was too young to remember