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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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"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
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"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."
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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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"In boxing, everybody has their favorites."
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"I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then."
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"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me."
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"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."
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"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
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"What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt."
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"Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything."
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"Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart."
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"One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet."
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"A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body."
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"To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise."
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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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"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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"I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey."
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"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."
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"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."
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