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| 9a4d0b0 | It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing. | boxing fighters training | Norman Mailer | |
| 4f4490c | "How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over." | boxing blacks whites race-relations training race | Colson Whitehead |