After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed
away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer
died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman,
Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past
few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman
confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.
In recent years, Ali's health began to suffer dramatically. There was a
death scare in 2013, and last year he was rushed to the hospital after
being found unresponsive. He recovered and returned to his new home in
Arizona. In his final years, Ali was barely able to speak. Asked to share his
personal philosophy with NPR in 2009, Ali let his wife read his essay:
"I never thought of the possibility of failing, only of the fame and
glory I was going to get when I won," Ali wrote. "I could see it. I
could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all
time, I believed in myself, and I still do."
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