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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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"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
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"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
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"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
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"I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan."
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"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."
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"Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best."
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"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."
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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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"The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport."
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"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
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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."
Dream
"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."
Heart
"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing."
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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
"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."
Religion
"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."
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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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