Exercise Life 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
Heart 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
Mortality World 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
Impression Shakespeare 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
Diet 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
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. - Arthur Schopenhauer
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. - Graham Nelson
I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981. - R. A. Salvatore