Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
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