Boxer Muhammad Ali was once asked “What’s the greatest lesson you’ve ever learned?” Ali thought a minute... and answered with a story about his famed match with Sonny Liston: “Liston was the strongest man I’d ever fought. Every time I hit him, it hurt me worse than it did him. I gave him everything I had. When the sixth round ended, I was completely spent. I couldn’t even raise my arms. I couldn’t even stand up to go back onto the ring. ‘I’m goin’ home!’ I told [trainer] Angelo Dundee. ‘I’m not going back in there!’ Hearing this, Dundee demanded that Ali get ready to go in. Ali refused. The bell rang, and still Ali didn’t leave his seat. Dundee pushed him and shouted, ‘Get in there and don’t come out until you’re the heavyweight champion of the world.’ Ali struggled to his feet. Liston didn’t. At the end of that fight, Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, was the new heavyweight champion of the world. ‘The greatest lesson I’ve learned,’ Ali said, ‘is to have someone pushin’ you and makin’ you do things you don’t think you can do.’” Some of you reading this have given it everything you’ve got. You’re spent. Exhausted. Not sure how you’re going to get through that tough opponent staring you down in the other corner. Life has hit you hard and you aren’t excited about the possibilities of getting hit again. You need someone in your corner. You need an Angelo Dundee... someone pushing you to get back up and fight... Who is that in your life? If nobody comes to mind, I have good news for you today. Wake up with Determination & Go To Bed With Satisfaction Rise Up!!!!!!
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:31:33 +0000
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