Platon

I'll tell you what was great, he said.

It wasn't me.

It was that people saw themselves in my struggle, in my story.

And then he turned it to me, and now I've got the great honor to turn it to you.

And he said, if you can get people to see themselves in the story that you put forward, then you have a chance of achieving greatness.

But that greatness is never you personally.

That's something much bigger called bridge building.

A light bulb went off in my brain, so I took my last-ever portrait of Muhammad Ali, not as a prize fighter or a champion, but as a compassionate bridge-builder thinking of the underdog.

Whose eye is this?

Someone you love, someone you hate.

A different type of underdog belongs to this man.

So I said to him,

Let's be human with each other just for a few minutes.

We've all followed your career, I said.

No one can doubt it's an extraordinary career path you've had.

But there's always something about you.

There's always an air of tension and controversy about things you say and do in public.

And I'm sure that's intentional on your part.

But it feels to me as if you're in the middle of an emotional storm.

Personally, I couldn't live with that anxiety all the time.