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Top 20 Gene Tunney Quotes (2025 Update)

Gene Tunney Quote: “To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.”

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

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.”

2. “Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.”

3. “A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “I’ve seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.”

4. “I’ve seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.”

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

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “The greatest fighter I ever saw.”

9. “The greatest fighter I ever saw.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.”

10. “My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.”

11. “I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.”

13. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.”

16. “Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.”

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

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure – chest collapsed, stomach protruding.”

20. “The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure – chest collapsed, stomach protruding.”

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Gene Tunney Quote: “Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.”

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

— Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney Quote: “Ever since boyhood I’ve made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.”

23. “Ever since boyhood I’ve made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.”

— Gene Tunney

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