Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

To the Editor,

I lost one of my heroes when Cassius Clay, who was much better known as Mohammad Ali died. His Louisville lip and his quick wit and even quicker hands made him the greatest. He estimated that he had been hit in the head twenty-nine thousand times. That explained the majority of his health problems. The old saying that “if you don’t have something worth dying for you probably don’t have much to live for” was how he lived his life. He said ‘til the day he left us that boxing had done a lot more for him than to him. Ali was not my hero because of his fifty- six wins, t...