Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

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.

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

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

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.