Gene Tunney Quotes

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• If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality…
• I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
• The greatest fighter I ever saw
• Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
• A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables,…
• 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;…
• 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…
• Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
• A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
• A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
• 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…
• Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious 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…
• 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…
• In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I…
• 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…
• The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

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