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THE STOLEN BICYCLE INCIDENT THAT MADE A BOY THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOXER

In the month of October 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky a young boy of twelve reported the theft of his bicycle to a police officer, Joe Martin promising to pummel the culprit when he laid his hands on whoever it was. The police officer who was also a boxing trainer suggested to the upset teenager to first of all learn how to fight because in his own wisdom, it is one thing to be angry and it is another thing to know how to fight. He gladly took the youngster under his wing and trained and six weeks later he won his first fight
       This teenager as an amateur boxer fought 105 fights losing only five and winning the remaining 100 as if that was not enough in the Rome Olympics at the age of eighteen won the Olympic gold in the boxing event defeating all his opponents along the way. Four years after that memorable event, he defeated the boxing champion, Sonny Liston. He went on to become the 'World's Greatest' boxer after many memorable fights like 'Fight of The Century', Rumble In The Jungle and A Thrilla In Manila. He even after retirement remains the 'King of The Ring' he is no other person than Muhammad Ali.
 Someone said that, A successful man is the one who has built a house with the bricks that others have thrown at him'. All this success came via the incident of a stolen bicycle. Friend, adversity will not leave you the way it found you, it will make you either better or worse but the choice is yours. Young Cassius Clay, the name he was known then could have ignored the wisdom of his trainer and gone for revenge which would have gotten him beat up or in trouble if he really pounded the thief who stole his bicycle. When faced with adversity, rather than react negatively, act positively for Napoleon Hill said 'In every adversity is the seed of equal or greater benefit.

TRUE EDUCATION

MAKE YOUR CHOICE

THE STEP OF FAITH

KEEP MOVING

THEY DARED THE ODDS

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A young girl was thrown off the school choir by her teacher because she sounded like a goat, hurt yet she went on to become one of the most phenomenal musicians ever with her song 'Waka Waka' which was one of the songs for the World Cup in South Africa 2010, nobody remembers the teacher but we all remember Shakira.
   A young African American boy was written off by his teacher when he disclosed that we wanted to become a lawyer, after years in crime and six and a half years in prison he rose to become on of America's most fiery and feared speaker by the name, Malcolm X.
   Another teacher simply told a young African American boy that he would never amount to anything because of his brightness and also his humiliating the teacher in class, just like Shakira's teacher nobody remembers the name of the teacher but people will for a long time remember Christopher George Latore Wallace popularly known as Notorious BIG.
  Friend, never allow people build your world for they will always build  it too small, your destiny is too big to be comprehended by the masses who don't even know who you are let alone know what you are made to become. Just like these mentioned people and even more that time will not permit us to mention, go on and succeed, dare the odds just like these three other people did.