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“What keeps me going is goals.” Muhammad Ali Quotes
“What keeps me going is goals.” #MuhammadAli
“In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.” #MuhammadAli
The Champ is Here!
"Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare." #MuhammadAli
"I vowed never to turn a fan away." #MuhammadAli
"Don't you forget, I am the greatest!" #MuhammadAli
"I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself." #MuhammadAli
The Champ is waiting. #MuhammadAli
Float like a butterfly.
"Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” #MuhammadAli
"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision." #MuhammadAli
“I love to see my name in print.” #MuhammadAli
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, long before I dance under those lights." #MuhammadAli
“If you even dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologize!” #MuhammadAli
"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was." #MuhammadAli
The Louisville Lip!
in 1975: #MuhammadAli defeats Chuck Wepner.
"God don't want me to go down for standing up!" #MuhammadAli
“This brash young boxer is something to see, and the Heavyweight Championship is his destiny.” #ImABadMan
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” #MuhammadAli
Today in 1963: #MuhammadAli defeats Doug Jones in 10 rounds.
"I'm changing the pick I made before. Instead of six, Doug goes in four!" #MuhammadAli
"Jones likes to mix so I'll let it go six, if he talks jive I'll cut it to five!" #MuhammadAli
Focus & Determination.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Muhammad Ali on Determination
“If you want on the Web to lose your money, bet on Sonny.” #MuhammadAli
“From the beginning, I was determined to be the best boxer.” #MuhammadAli
“No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.” #MuhammadAli
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Tweets Originating from The Champ Himself Have the Hashtag
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Laila Ali, Boxer-ess
“What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true to life.” #MuhammadAli
"Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall." #MuhammadAli
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Head injuries both sports and non-sports related
DePaul professor’s book ‘The Ghost in My Brain,’ looks at head injuries both sports and non-sports related
by Lily Rose
on June 23, 2015
In 1999 DePaul University professor Clark Elliott had his car rear-ended on the way to give a lecture at the university’s O’Hare campus. Seemingly unscathed, he went about his day but it did not take long for Elliott to realize that something was wrong.
“I couldn’t remember anything about driving the eight miles to work, I couldn’t find my car after class,” Elliott said as he laid out the symptoms that led up to his diagnosis of a severe concussion four days later.
During the automotive incident, the force of the his car being hit from behind had caused his head to be knocked backwards and then thrown forward, causing traumatic brain injury. For the next eight years, Elliott lived with his symptoms.
“I often couldn’t walk, I couldn’t talk at times. I had severe balance difficulties; time meant almost nothing to me,” he said. “I couldn’t plan. I couldn’t do two things at once.”
Fortunately, Elliott was able to meet two researcher-clinicians who taught him how to use undamaged neural pathways in his brain and the symptoms went away. He details his experiences with his concussion and his rehabilitation for his book “The Ghost In My Brain,” which was released June 2. Elliott hopes that readers will learn what is at risk for them if they become concussed, especially those at high risk, such as athletes.
For athletes at DePaul, playing contact sports does increase the chances of receiving a concussion, but that does not mean that athletes need to worry. According to Sue Walsh, the Director of Sports Medicine at DePaul University, there have been six concussions this school year so far and not all have been sports related.
Walsh reports that every year DePaul Athletics discusses concussions with their athletes and that she herself has lectured about concussions to Theatre School students who take the Stage Combat course.
“It is obviously pretty hard to miss the hype [around concussions]. Most of the concussions we see here are short lived. Within those first 10 days we’re a little more cautious. We won’t let someone progress with symptoms,” Walsh said. “The importance for everyone is dispelling some of the myths and making sure that you’re not comparing someone who has had one or two concussions to an NFL or NHL player.”
Walsh blames the media for emphasizing traumatic brain injuries received by NHL and NFL players that scare the parents of student athletes into thinking that their child should not be put at risk by playing sports.
“We want to take [concussions] seriously but we don’t want students to be afraid of sports,” she said. “The health benefits and psychological benefits outweigh the risk of concussion.”
Although the possibility of a concussion should not put people off from playing sports, the reality of a concussion is that it can occur whenever there is an incident involving head trauma.
DePaul senior Nash Sanderson, 22, was in middle school when he suffered the first of the four concussions that he has encountered in his life.
“I was at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC watching a performance of ” A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. This was in middle school, 7th grade I believe. I was already probably 5’11 or 6 foot and we were sitting up in the balcony seating area,” Sanderson said.
“The show came to a close, I quickly stood to applaud and I smashed my giant head into the corner of the red hot stage light. I immediately picked up a nasty bruise. On and off for the next week or so, I would suddenly get splitting migraine headaches, which light, sound, or motion greatly exasperated. Within the week, the headaches were so bad and frequent to the point where I was getting nauseous and losing vision without warning.”
When things got to be too severe, Sanderson went to the emergency room where he was then diagnosed with a concussion. According to Elliott, students like Sanderson are just one of the thousands of people per day who have traumatic brain injury happen to them.
“Between now and this time tomorrow there are going to be 5,000 people who suffer from these brain injuries. These are only the ones that we know about,” he said. “One of the reasons I wrote the book is to have people become aware of what they are risking.”
Readers will learn that his recovery period was not easy and fraught with disappointment. But they will also discover that with the right combination of brain and ocular therapy, survivors of traumatic brain injury can heal and lead normal lives. Elliott said. “In a last gasp effort I sent out about 20 or 30 letters looking for people that were working in neuroplasticity and I was lucky enough to come across a doctor who does cognitive restructuring using paper and pencils, you know puzzles, and an optometrist who works with neurodevelopmental techniques. After all this time and after being told by everyone you’ll never get better, after starting treatment, the ghost of who I had been started to come back.”
Elliott’s book “The Ghost in My Brain” is now available in stores and online. Elliott continues to teach at DePaul University as a professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence with DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media.
Source: http://depauliaonline.com/sports/2015/06/23/depaul-professors-the-ghost-in-my-brain-head-injuries-sports/
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Ang Lee’s Groundbreaking Ali/Frazier Biopic Might Not Happen
The Unfortunate Reason Ang Lee’s Groundbreaking Ali/Frazier Biopic Might Not Happen
When Lee revealed that it would be another 3D film that revolved around the legendary 1975 boxing match, excitement over the movie immediately exploded. However, budget problems have started to disrupt pre-production, and Lee has become so incensed by the delays that he is now considering working on a smaller movie instead of the sports drama.
Video of NYPD cop boxing with hostile suspect under review
Video of NYPD cop boxing with hostile suspect under review
By Ben Feuerherd
July 2, 2015 | 6:30pm
A knife-wielding man wasn’t going down without a fight — and an NYPD cop was there to give it to him.
A video released Thursday shows two plainclothes officers in Harlem trying to arrest Saykou George, who has two outstanding warrants and a record of assault.
But as George apparently resists arrest and tries to stalk off, one of the cops has to resort to putting up his fists to keep him from fleeing along Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
Meanwhile, the other officer, a woman, tries to grab the hulking George and slap cuffs on him, but he keeps resisting, according to the video.
Amid tense police-community relations — and with the bystander taking the video shouting over and over, “I got everything on camera” — the male cop keeps up the fight.
The woman calls for backup — and within 30 seconds, uniformed officers arrive to subdue George.
Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the officers, who made the bust on Wednesday.
“You have no right, no right under New York law, to resist arrest, which was going on, based on what I’m seeing in that video,” Bratton said.
“The Internal Affairs group will now be reviewing the video, as we always do. But in my preliminary review of that, I saw nothing inappropriate with the officers’ behavior.”
The eight-minute video begins with George, clad in a red shirt and shorts, handing his ID to the plainclothes officers on a sidewalk.
The two cops had seen him carrying the blade in plain sight, cops said, and approached him.
As the male officer holds the ID, George begins flailing his arms while demanding that the officer hand it back.
“You can’t do that to me. I gotta go take my medicine and stuff,” George shouts as onlookers level verbal abuse at the officers.
George keeps mouthing off and gets into a shoving match with the male officer while attempting to storm away.
The cop assumes a boxing-type stance and hits George, who continues to resist.
George raises his own fists and the two engage briefly in fisticuffs until the bust is made.
George, 30, was hit with charges that included assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and criminal possession of a weapon.
FILED UNDER BILL BRATTON , HARLEM , INTERNAL AFFAIRS , NYPD
Link: http://nypost.com/2015/07/02/video-of-nypd-cop-boxing-with-hostile-suspect-under-review/
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