Muhammad Ali: A Brief Analysis

He cared about his community as much as he cared about boxing. He was person who most young black and white children looked up to. His actions outside of the ring were important to those young children. Most of the children wanted to become a fighter like Ali, but Ali would tell them to stay in school. He was against children wanting to go into to boxing. Even though he was a boxer he didn’t want young children to follow him. He believed that education would get those young children far in life. The percentage of them becoming a great boxer was low, but with education they could be whatever they wanted to become. I think he learn this from his parents. They were strong believers of education even though their child didn’t go beyond high school they still did their job to tell him that education was important.

His mother did her job raising a young and promising man who didn’t get into trouble a lot. They are a lot of children who had what Ali had or even better, but sometimes taking the wrong turn can change a lot in one's life. When he was not in school, he was training, and when he was not training, he was going to church with his mother. When he was older he did the same things. When he was going the wrong way, his brother and trainers helped him stay focused. How did this help him in the long term? I think it gave him more time to trainer and work of his boxing so that he could become a great fighter. For some boxers they were in there to get famous and get rich, but for Ali that was not what he wanted. He wanted to become the greatest of all time and having a family that looked out for him was what he need