Raise Your Game: Muhammad Ali, The People’s Champ

Jun 09, 2016 • 1 Min Read

This week we honour the great Muhammad Ali. He was hailed the People’s Champ, a hero to the people, for the skills he possessed and for championing beliefs that made him such a formidable character both in and out of the ring.

Roshan Thiran and Lily Cheah of Leaderonomics, and Lee Ai Jin, Malaysia’s first female boxer, share their personal thoughts on what they admired most about Muhammad Ali, how he was an inspiration and what we can hope to learn from him.

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