Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/6/16

Mohammed Ali made the rare transition from a man who was reviled to a man who was loved. He was a great athlete and a great showman. His relationship with Howard Cossell was a unique sports/media tandem. Ali was a religious man and an icon, and I think he truly loved all people. That love transcends religions, color, race, ethnicity, and politics..

His athletic accomplishments were in a brutal sport with vicious opponents. He was brave and he was imperfect. The beatings he endured—a deliberate strategy later in his career when his speed was diminished and “rope-a-dope” was his technique for tiring out hard-swinging opponents—unquestionably took their toll mentally as well as physically as time wore on.

Yet the image of the indomitable fighter, the human rights champion, the media favorite, and the man of faith are forever young. His greatest bravery wasn’t expressed in the ring against opponents trying to maul him, but rather with those critics constantly trying to undermine him, dethrone him, jail him. Against those consequences he held firm and set an example for us all. He never gave up, in the ring or outside of it.

Rest In Peace, Mohammad Ali, Champion Forever.

If you can do it, it ain’t braggin’…

— Legendary baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean

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