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.

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

Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

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

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

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.