15 Quotes by Jonathan Eig

The Gotham boys have a first baseman, Louis Gehrig, who is called the ‘Babe Ruth’ of the high schools,” wrote the Chicago Tribune.

When they reached her door, Clay leaned in for a kiss, and Swint closed her eyes to give him one back. Then came a series of loud thudding sounds – and no kiss. When Swint opened her eyes, Clay was lying on the ground at the foot of the stairs in a tangle of long arms and legs. Clay had fainted. From the bottom of the stairs, he looked up sheepishly at Swint. “Ain’t nobody gonna believe this,” he said.

It’s not easy for a rebel to remain a rebel all his life. It’s exhausting.

Greatness is a spiritual condition, worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration.

Eventually, Martin persuaded Clay to fly. “But then he went to an army supply store and bought a parachute and actually wore it on the plane.

Ali was everything everybody wanted their child to be, except some ignorant-ass white folks, and they don’t count.