"A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The body has a mind of its own."

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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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."

Time

"In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively."

Life

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

Ambition

"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."

Body

"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."

Boxing

"Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight."

Opportunity

"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."

Impression

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

Basketball

"One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet."

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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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