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'The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the two biggest crimes of my career were, being born colored, and, second, battering Jim Jeffries into insensibility at Reno. I couldn't help the first, and I could have only avoided the second by lying down. So I have nothing on my conscience.
When I came into the fight game the white fighters ruled the roost, and as long as the state of affairs continued things went well with me. As a second-line boxer I was popular all over the United States. It was only when I had beaten Tommy Burns and made myself heavyweight champion of the world that trouble blew up.'
- Jack Johnson
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When I came into the fight game the white fighters ruled the roost, and as long as the state of affairs continued things went well with me. As a second-line boxer I was popular all over the United States. It was only when I had beaten Tommy Burns and made myself heavyweight champion of the world that trouble blew up.'
- Jack Johnson
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