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.

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.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

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

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

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.

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