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"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar."
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"In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively."

"As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one."

"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons."

"Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion."

"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing."

"If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world."

"The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward."
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