THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Phoenix Dark on June 04, 2016, 12:28:15 AM
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NBC News @NBCNews 22s22 seconds ago
BREAKING: Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, 'the greatest of all time,' has died at 74
RIP to the greatest. Greatest boxer? Probably not, I don't know. But I can't think of a greater athlete when it comes to what he stood for, what he stood against, and what he was willing to lose in order to defend his principles. We're going to hear a lot of praise for him over the coming days and weeks but let's not forget how hated the man was at one point due to his refusal to fight in Vietnam and his association with Malcolm X/NOI.
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The real goat. Damn.
Edit: I met him. I'll share. Truly a brilliant man. Read people like books. Probably top 10 30 minute period in my life. Even addled he was vibrant and witty.
"The most amazing thing you can do is succeed when they all thought you would fail"
He told me that.
Man. His one hurts.
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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtxfTEyJZg4
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WsAC4lhbE0g
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This one hurts like a motherfucker. He was the last living person I cared to call a hero.
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One of the few athletes bigger than the sport.
RIP
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shit.
I mean, shit, that guy never stopped being awesome. Never. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJcDk66qO3E#t=9m53s)
Damn, I mean, what a badass, and I don't mean just for his amazing boxing ability. He was just an awesome dude.
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One of the few people that was as gifted at talking shit as he was at backing it up. RIP.
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:lawd the GOAT
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http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000003216440/muhammad-ali-whats-my-name.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=clearfix&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Really good mini documentary from the NY Times
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God damn talented people are dying constantly this year.
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Eh, I guess he was a good boxer and shit, but he lacked the ability to get his name onto a good grill.
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Man, 2016 is such a colossally shit year and it's only June. :'(
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RIP Champ
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http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/watching-rocky-ii-with-muhammad-ali
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Obama's statement on Ali's passing is absolutely incredible reading (http://time.com/4357513/muhammad-ali-barack-obama/)
Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”
But what made The Champ the greatest – what truly separated him from everyone else – is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.
Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing. But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.
In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him – the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston. I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was – still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden.
“I am America,” he once declared. “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.”
That’s the Ali I came to know as I came of age – not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man who fought for what was right. A man who fought for us. He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn’t. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.
He wasn’t perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes – maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves. Later, as his physical powers ebbed, he became an even more powerful force for peace and reconciliation around the world. We saw a man who said he was so mean he’d make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest. We watched a hero light a torch, and fight his greatest fight of all on the world stage once again; a battle against the disease that ravaged his body, but couldn’t take the spark from his eyes.
Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace.
https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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the realest :tocry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0N6NTUbWFA
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I was never a huge fan of boxing, but I was a huge fan of Ali.
R.I.P.