"I love boxing and his story is amazing" says Andy Murray revealing admiration for Muhammad Ali

Andy Murray finds inspiration in many athletes and he revealed his admiration for the iconic boxer Muhammad Ali.

Murray is not alone in admiring Ali, as the American boxer has many athletes looking up to him for everything that he did. Murray thinks Ali has a very good story and he revealed that in an interview after his Mubadala World Tennis Championship. He said:

"I love boxing and his story I thought was an amazing story. When he beat George Foreman to win the world title, everyone thought he was finished, that he had absolutely no chance, everybody like wrote him off and stuff. That was something that for me at the time was inspirational. Right now I don't think about that every single day but it's another situation where people shouldn't be so quick always to write everyone off."

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He continued:

“It happened with – and I'm not saying I'm Roger Federer or Muhammad Ali, I'm certainly not. But I still have the ability to compete with the best players in the world. If my body is able to stay healthy, it's certainly a possibility. And whilst that possibility is still there, I'm going to keep on keep trying to achieve what it is that I want”.

Murray wants to make a deep run at a grand slam this year and his first opportunity is not far away with the Australian Open closer by the day.