Laila Ali
Laila Ali
Laila Amaria Aliis an American former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. She is the daughter of the late heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali with his third wife, Veronica Porsche Ali, and is the eighth of her father's nine children. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth30 December 1977
CityMiami Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.
Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.