"The Power of One" Quotes
A young boy overcomes adversity and discrimination to pursue his dreams of becoming a champion boxer in apartheid-era South Africa.
fiction | 629 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
I nursed most of the patients, and discovered that laughing does good, like a medicine, for the bachtics.
It is only the truly silent mind that can penetrate the veil and discover the beauty beyond.
I had wanted to die, to be subsumed into this new reality out of the reach of those who would make me suffer. But I could not.
The feeling of righteous indignation crossed my soul for the second time in my life – the first was on the day the chicken refused to die.
Chick chick chick, chickisting... chick. Chick chick chick chick, chick chickistic... chick.
Life is a compromise, and when you get into bed with the enemy, you shouldn't be surprised when your heart explodes.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
It is not often that a caballero teaches an Englishman how to box. Yet it happened.
First with the head, then with the heart.
I learned to say the phrases 'I am sorry,' 'Thank you,' and 'Very nice' in sixty-six languages.
