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.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

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.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

The greatest fighter I ever saw

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

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.

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.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

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.

When you are busy doing something for God, God will also be busy doing something for you.

The city takes a breath on Sunday. Of all that’s lost with the pursuit of what’s next, I hope we don’t lose that…

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.