"That's right."
"So whattam I supposed to do when I go inter the ring tonight? Throw down my hands and give it up?"
"You do what I did. Do your best."
"Alla while knowin' I don't stand a chance?"
"If I did it, you can do it."
"You know what you don't have, Charlie? You don't have faith!"
Charlie Jingle snorted in disgust.
"Who hatched you? Some preacher?"
"No, no, that's the truth, and you know it!"
"The truth," roared Charlie Jingle in a white rage, "The truth is that everything's a lie! The truth is that everything's fixed from the word go, from the bottom up and the top down. That's the goddam truth for you!"