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

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

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

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

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.

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.

The greatest fighter I ever saw