Cassius : Gaius Cassius Longinus, chief conspirator Caesar’s murder; later he committed suicide.
... Boxing Cassius Clay Cassius Clay was born in 1942, of a poor black Christian family in Louisville, Kentucky. He was an aimless adolescent roaming the streets with friends when he discovered boxing, one of the only sports open to a black athlete in America at that time of strict segregation. Young Cassius took to boxing and eventually rose to fame... gang, I was getting recognition as a fighter. My father walked up and down Boston Street after my first victory, predicting, 'My son is going to be another Joe Louis. The World Heavyweight Champion, Cassius Clay.' After school I would go to work four hours for the Catholic sisters, then train at Martin's gym from six to eight in the evening. From there I would go to get the real training at Stoner's... for the Heavyweight Title of the World!' And coming back the next night to say, 'I'm now the Heavyweight Champion of the World!' The rain is cold and pouring down harder, Page 367 Cassius Clay vs. Archie Moore and I ask myself, 'Can I?' At this time I can't even beat everybody in my own gym. I ask Joe Martin. He shakes his head doubtfully. 'You hardly weigh a hundred and fifteen ...
... outside. Shakespeare took his materials from this legend or that play, this chronicle or that history? His framework possibly, but not his creations; Hamlet did not come from the legend or the play, nor Cassius or King Henry from the history or the chronicle. No, Shakespeare contained in himself all his creatures, and therefore transcended & exceeded them; he was and is more than they or even than their sum ...
... he embodied quite a bit of it. He was solidly built, but never looked heavy or moved heavily. In fact he bounced like a rubber ball, in the ring — “flitted like a butterfly and stung like a bee” (Cassius Clay — M. Ali). He was of average height or maybe slightly on the shorter side as per present standards — about 168 cm. He cut a clean muscular figure. Arms, shoulders and chest well formed — carrying ...
... that we are presenting of his autobiography, there obviously is a quest, a striving towards mastery on the body, which, in its austerity, may resemble at times a Zen discipline! Muhammad All — alias Cassius Clay — is mostly known, besides his remarkable boxing career, for a highly egotist character. But again, despite this, reading an account of his life shows what courage, what determination he possesses ...
... muscles. In the field of combatives, boxing is a familiar subject, although it is, to some extent, controversial. We have presented extracts from an autobiographical account by Muhammad Ali (alias Cassius Clay). Among games, cricket is one of the most favourite, and A.G. Gardiner's text on the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar seemed to us from many points of view a fine tribute to one of the most eminent figures ...
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