Happy Birthday Champ

Today is Muhammed Ali's 65th birthday. He's one of the people I've most admired and truly deserves his title as "The Greatest"; not just for his skill at his chosen craft, but for his strength and compassion as a person.

It's almost impossible for those who weren't alive at the time of his refusal to fight in Vietnam to understand how stunning and powerfully influential that decision was and how much it almost destroyed his life. But he triumphed in the end and made things better by standing up for what he believed in. Along with other athletes of his time like Jim Brown, his life examplified the courage of his convictions. If you haven't seen it already, please take a look at a brilliant documentary entitled "When We Were Kings", you won't regret the experience.