![]() ![]() I was only fourteen, but I was a true believer in Cus’s philosophy. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to start living the life of a heavyweight champion. "Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity that you wanted to be.So one must never allow fear to develop and build-up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. “Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning.I found it interesting that he knew right from the beginning that he was going to be great and become one of the most successful boxer who ever lived. I didn’t know what it was I’d do but I decided that I wanted people to look at me like I was on show, the same way they did to Ali." ![]() "Right then I decided I wanted to be great.These were the passages that stuck out to me the most about the human condition To have the courage he did to speak his truth like that is inspiring. The reason why he was so loved and hated is because of his real authentic vulnerability in sharing himself so openly, raw and no filter. ![]()
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