Omar Suleiman
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And a lot of people that loved him when he died would not have loved him if they were around in the 1960s and the 1970s.
You know, they said they loved him when he couldn't speak anymore.
You know, many of those who celebrated him at the time of his death would have been his greatest opponents.
At the peak of his career.
And when he was taking the stance that he was taking.
And that's the thing, right?
It was so obvious that despite everything that had happened to him,
He never loses himself, neither to the fame nor to the fear.
He always stays himself.
And I went to his funeral and it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen because...
Everyone in Louisville, Kentucky had a story with Muhammad Ali, right?
The guy that he saves from committing suicide, the school kids, the hotel shuttle driver, the gas station worker.
Everyone has a story of Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky.
And when he passes away, everybody comes out.
and stands in front of their homes and they take the casket and they drive around the streets of Louisville.
And he had this dream, I'm very close to some of his children, incredible people, by the way, just incredible human beings.
And he had this dream that he shared with them that he was jogging around the streets of Louisville, Kentucky,
and everyone had come out to wave to him.