"In no list that you will ever see will he be listed among the 10 greatest, but that is as it should be. He had a good left hand but he was not a great boxer and, although he could bang with that right hand, he was not a great puncher. He may, however, in the sense that others could see themselves in him and read their own struggles into his, have belonged to more people than any other champion who ever lived. His beginnings as a fighter were the beginnings of all fighters. What happened to him, though, happened to a whole country, and that is why I believe that no other fighter was ever as representative of his time."

Boxing Writer-Bill Heinz on Jimmy Braddock