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"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
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"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
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"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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