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"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."
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"Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight."
"Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain."
"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."
"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."
"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."
"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."
"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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"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves."
"Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months."
"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."
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