President Barack Obama offered his condolences Saturday on the death of Muhammad Ali.
“Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing,” Obama said in a statement. “But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.”
Obama said he keeps a pair of Ali’s gloves on display in his White House study, under the iconic 1965 photograph of a 22-year-old Ali standing over a fallen Sonny Liston.
Read his full statement below.
President Obama’s tribute to Muhammad Ali is just… beautiful (via @fordm) pic.twitter.com/xEM75xQj7J
— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) June 4, 2016
