"The best times I had were up at Deer Lake," said Pat Patterson, a former Chicago police officer who worked as Ali's bodyguard, in the book, "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times,” by Thomas Hauser. "It was like we had our own little village. Everybody got to be themselves, the family really came together. We'd sit there, talking about whatever crossed our mind. And believe me, it was very special to have those moments with Ali. The rest of the world saw the fights and the glory. But we were there at six o'clock in the morning, when he came back from running with ice under his nose. We laughed with him at night, shared good times and bad."
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