he said “I am the greatest, and I told you that even before I knew I was the greatest”.
He believed first and then became his belief. His positivity about what he would become is clear in the article and makes sense to us now but its easy to forget that he was once a shy poor 16 year old called Cacius Clay.

“A thought repeated over and over again becomes a belief, and when that belief becomes a conviction, thats when things really start to happen.” Muhammed Ali