"Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Elvis was my close personal friend. He came to my Deer Lake training camp about two years before he died. He told us he didn't want nobody to bother us. He wanted peace and quiet and I gave him a cabin in my camp and nobody even knew it. When the cameras started watching me train, he was up on the hill sleeping in the cabin. Elvis had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know."

- Muhammad Ali




http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_presley_and_muhammad_ali_.shtml

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended for Elvis and Muhammed Ali

Thanks for the thread DemocratSinceBirth:thumbsup:

[jobycom]

2. Cool. A lot of people said that about him. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It Kind Of Destroys The Notion That Elvis Was Reflexively GOP

During that era there was a great divide and much of white , reactionary, America embraced Joe Frazier when he fought Muhammad Ali because Ali was seen as a draft dodger and black nationalist... It's not Joe's fault... They embraced him...Nixon even invited him to the White House.. He didn't embrace them plus white America had long given up on finding a white fighter that would kick Ali's ass...Who you rooted for in the first Ali-Frazier fight, as unfair as it was to Frazier, was a Rorschach test on where you fell on the idealogical spectrum... If Elvis was GOP he would have embraced Frazier... The fact he didn't suggested he wasn't...


Gawd- Muhammad Ali looks so young and vibrant in those pictures...

[Skittles]

4. I have heard he never forgot where he came from

I have also heard some sweet stories abotu Mr. Ali.