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

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.

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

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

The greatest fighter I ever saw