(Audio) Clinton: "By God, Ali Lit the Flame"

My enduring image of him is like a little reel in three shots. The boxer I thrilled to as a boy. The man I watched take the last steps to light the Olympic flame when I was president. I'll never forget it. I was sitting there in Atlanta...by then we knew each other...by then I felt I had some sense of what he was living with, and I was still weeping like a baby, seeing his hands shake and his legs shake and knowing, by God, he was going to make those last few steps, no matter what it took. The flame would be lit. The fight would be won. His spirit would be affirmed. I knew it would happen.

From President Bill Clinton's eulogy for Muhammad Ali, 2016; Photo by Andy Clark/Reuters

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