From the box

Final exams are just around the corner, and as the sports desk we feel an obligation to stir the competitive drive and can-do spirit of the student body.

In this spirit, we offer to you the words of Mohammed Ali on the eve of a fight against heavily-favored George Foreman. If we prepare with the same intensity and confidence for finals, we will all deliver knockout blows to the toughest our fine professors can dish out.

“I done wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning — threw thunder in jail.
That’s bad.
Only last week, I murdered a rock,
injured a stone, hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean I make medicine sick. …
Last night, I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch — was in the bed before the room was dark. …
I’ma show you, how great I am!”

– Muhammad Ali