I consider an idol someone who has done great things and someone I admire. Some of the things I consider great are achieving seemingly impossible goals, standing up for your rights, and doing amazing things. Muhammad Ali is someone I consider a "significant other" because I admire him and strive to have the same kind of belief as him. At first Cassius Clay had no intention of boxing. After his bicycle was stolen in October 1954, when he was twelve years old, the fate of his entire life changed in an instant. After discovering that there was a police officer in the basement of a gym, Cassius fell into a horrendous mood by exclaiming a "statewide bicycle hunt" and said he was going to beat up the person who stole his bicycle . The way his life changed was that the police officer asked him if he knew how to fight and he said “no.” The policeman offered Cassio lessons on how to box so he could track down the bicycle thief. This was the starting point of Muhammad Ali's boxing career. In the late 1950s, Cassius Clay rules the Golden Gloves and the national AAU champion. A quick fight at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Cassius Clay, a teenager, beat a Polish fighter named Zbigniew Pietrzykowski into "bloody pulp." Muhammad Ali took home the gold. After the Olympics he began training at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach, Florida. His trainer Angelo was very impressed with Cassius' work inside and outside the ring. "Never an argument, never an argument, the first to enter the gym, the last to leave, these were his qualities, he had a lot to offer" (Angelo Dundee). These were the qualities he had, he was a hard worker, that's why he became the boxer that everyone wanted to face, but no one could beat. These are also the qualities that have made people look to him as an example of what it takes to succeed. This is when Clay entered the professional boxing ranks. At the young age of eighteen Clay stepped into the ring for his first professional fight in which he easily defeated Tunney Hunsaker by unanimous decision. Lennox Lewis said: "Clay showed the sweet boxing science of hitting without getting hit.