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Gene Tunney

"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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"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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"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."

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"I don't believe in dieting."

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"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."

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"Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people."

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"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."

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"As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong."

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"Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats."

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"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."

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"I think dieting is bad for you."

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"The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness."

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"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."
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"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons."
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"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."
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"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing."
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"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."
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"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."
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"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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