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

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.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

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.

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

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.