If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
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Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
David McCullough – 1776