Watching old clips of the man in his prime, it strikes me how fleeting youth is. How much time did Ali spend working his magic in the ring, as opposed to fighting the effects of his career and Parkinson's disease.
He's rare in that he's one of the few whose greatness was (in large part) appreciated in his own time, and not just in retrospect. A shame we can't bottle the moments a man like that brought to the world.
It's been a rough couple of years for icons...
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