With Muhammad Ali, it was always the people.
It didn't matter whether they were rich or poor, black or white, celebrity-famous, blue-collar weary or welfare poor. It didn't matter what language they spoke, what God they worshiped, what gender they were. Well, in this last group I'd have to say that the ladies had a little edge.
I have been in this business more than 60 years and shared time with most of the great ones — Pele and Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle, with Joe Willie Namath and Vince Lombardi, and even Jim Thorpe in his declining years. But in all that time, I never knew an athlete who could stop a room, a building or even a city street dead in its tracks, the way Muhammad Ali could and did.
Greatest quotes from 'The Greatest'
Greatest quotes from 'The Greatest'
He went full bore into each fight with a silver tongue and heavyweight gold."
Muhammad Ali: Why they called him 'The Greatest' and why I called him my friend | Jerry Izenberg | NJ.com
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