"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of……" — Gene Tunney
"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."
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24 Quotes by Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney has 24 quotes on this site.
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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be…
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I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
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The greatest fighter I ever saw
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
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A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of…
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Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped…
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But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days…
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
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A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
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A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
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As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested…
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The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional…
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More Boyhood Quotes
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best…
— John Lennon
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my…
— Willie Morris
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else…
— Richard Baxter
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and…
— William Butler Yeats
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In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience…
— Jim Elliot
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots…
— Keri Hulme
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For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
— James Payn
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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is…
— George Takei
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