It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close. - Jesse Owens

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers — weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere — one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.