Ali influenced me in the way he carried himself. He had the ultimate self-belief. I think this is so important in life. NOTHING great happens without t a large level of self-belief. We must believe in ourselves and our ideas.

Even when many people never thought Ali would become the champion... Ali did. He spoke it into existence. He let everyone know exactly what he was going to do. He said it so much that it started to wear on his opponents. He got into their heads. Ali knew that this was a sport and in sports, the objective is to win. There are many tactics to sports, many of the ways to win are physical... but there is a large component outside of the physical and that is, the mental. Ali was arguably one of the greatest of all time at this mental game. He knew how to get into his opponent's heads. He would call them ugly. He would say that he was gonna steal their girl. He would pretty much say anything so that they stopped thinking about their strategy and started obsessing on how they were going to destroy Ali. This very easily may have been the slight advantage that Ali needed to win some of the fights that may have seemed impossible. I mean have you ever seen George Forman in his prime... Or Sunny Liston.

Ali was a BAD MAN!! And I mean that in the best way!

RIP Ali, The Greatest Of All Time.

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