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

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

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

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

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.

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.

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