Muhammad Ali (born 17th of January in 1942.)

His legendary story began in 1954. One day a twelve years old boy – Cassius found out his bicycle had been stolen. Very disappointed he came to the police officer Joe Martin telling how much he wanted to find and beat that thief. Joe reminded to the ambitious boy that in order to go fight he had to learn how to do it first and invited Cassius to join his boxing team. Soon after only six weeks of training the young boxer had his first fight and won it. By this way, he started train more winning all the competitions. During Olympic Games 1960 that were held in Rome Clay beat world’s best boxers and became a champion.  We are talking about the legendary boxer who later changed his name Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali.

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see” – one of the most famous Ali’s quotes. He always had an absolutely unique style of boxing that distinguished him from other fighters. Not only physical abilities, but also his insistence, self-confidence and courage helped him to become a heavyweight World Champion in professional boxing at the age of only 22. During his boxing career that lasted for 21 years Muhammad spent 61 fights, 56 of which were won. Ali says that dreaming and fantasizing were the key motivators in his success. Saying that he wants people know that sportsman becomes a champion not in the gym, but it is born from something that he has in the soul – a great desire. Muhammad Ali also became “the greatest” because he had this unique vision of the success somewhere deep inside.

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did  at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life”, “he, who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”. These are the legendary quotes said by Ali. He believes in order to be successful there is always a need of change. All the time everything around changes thus people have to take a risk and grow up and improve. From teenage Mohammed was always motivated and goal-orientated. He knew and believed he would be the great boxer and he finally achieved this goal as nobody could be better in what he did.