This I Believe: I Am Still the Greatest ~ Muhammad Ali

Despite having won the heavyweight boxing championship three times, boxing extraordinaire, Muhammad Ali, is fighting his greatest opponent yet, Parkinson's disease.  A progressive disease of the nervous system, Parkinson's causes tremors (shaking) and muscular rigidity which makes movement slow and difficult to control.  Since his retirement from boxing in 1981, Ali has been fighting this disease's will to knock out the self-confidence Ali is so well-known for.  Read and listen to Ali's essay about how he fights to continue to live his life to the fullest despite the strength of the disease.

See the video of Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic torch at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games