President Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, have released a joint statement addressing the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
“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,”
He began the statement
“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,”
The statement continues:
“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,”.
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