“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
He first said it in 1964 in the lead-up to his fight with Sonny Liston. Having whipped that inferno of a man, he said it again for the rematch a year later. And by the time Muhammad Ali stood against George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle a decade later, he not only said it, but he lived by it. He floated like a butterfly before he sprung from the ropes and stung Foreman. He was boxing’s great verse-maker, the very rhythm of the ring. The swan of the sweet science, and the sweet lyricist of boxing legend.
The Greatest.
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