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The greatest fighter I ever saw
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Fighter
Saws
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Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Fitness
Exercise
Heart
Should
Tribute
Regarded
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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Fitness
Good
Enjoy
Exercise
Good Health
Health Good Good Health
Health Good Fitness
You
Glow
Must
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A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Chests
Mean
Sagging
Chest
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A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Body
Boxers
Exercise
Boxer
Develop
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One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Burned
Feet
Mind
Stay
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Sports
Boxing
Four
Hours
Eat
Then
Only
Never
Before
Less
Lightly
Than
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I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Championship
Planning
Six
Winning
Years
Dempsey
Jack
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I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Fighting
Lack Of Knowledge
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Religion
Sports
Boyhood
Exercise
Conscientious
Regular
Shape
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Kids
Opportunity
Sports
Fighting
Good Opportunity
Belligerent
Fight
Passed
Though
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Running
Sports
Basketball
Boxing
Breathing
Jumping
Swimming
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The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Men
Sports
Body
Cutting
Pitiful
Stomach
Allowed
Chest
Collapsed
Cuts
Deteriorate
Figure
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My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Sports
Ambition
Boxing
Defense
Mike
Order
Skillful
Speed
Ring
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In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Running
Sports
Exercise
Plenty
Youth
Approaches
Figuratively
Literally
Settle
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Kids
Sports
Blow
Boxing
Gloves
Temperament
West Side
Dodging
Fooling
Striking
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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 in the world.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Sports
Charity
Judged
Making A Difference
Mortality
Standards
Terrific
Usefulness
Depended
Sudden
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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 was the world's heavyweight champion.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Dream
Morning
Awakening
Believe
Dream It
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Wondered
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Sports
Blood
Heart
Load
Fat
Chief
Enemies
Increases
Pumping
Supplied
Sustain
Thus
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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 lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Diet
Sports
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Meat
Milk
Plenty
Should
Sugar
Vegetables
Eat
Fat
Boxer
Diet Fruit Vegetables
High
Fresh
Lean
Low
Proteins
Therefore
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Quality
Sports
Champion
Habitual
My Time
Purpose
Afterwards
Ring
Champions
Professional
Studying
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Sports
Book
Fighter
Fighting
Impression
Prize
Studied
Fights
Books
Hit
Defensive
Essentially
Normally
Shakespeare
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Blood
Cells
Sleep
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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.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Men
Exercise
Simple
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