5. GOLD STANDARD

One day after winning light-heavyweight gold at the Rome Olympics in 1960, Clay approached then-heavyweight king, Floyd Patterson. “Look after that heavyweight title,” he said. “Keep it warm for me in the next two years when I will be ready to take it off you.”

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