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Show Rose (1/17/8 ) page 31 1-!r. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R middle-weights and that's where I could see that if I'd had their speed, and I'm talking about guys that were pretenders for the title all the way along the line, you see, and if I'd had their speed then it would have been something different. But I didn't have their speed and they were also so much more experienced than I was, so I wasn't comnaring me with the~ in terms of experience, I was comparing me with them in what I felt was my potential, and against them it was obvious to !De that I didn't have those potentials. I remember Romsky spent a whole afternoon trying to get ~e to coordinate my punches, or coordinate the way I threw my punches to get power into them. I couldn't do what he could do. As years went by, I got maybe a little heavier with my hands, but trying to put into practice, trying to implement what he was teaching me, but it didn't make that ~uch difference •• didn't make that much difference. I didn't get that much better. Speed - if you haven't got it, you just period haven't got it. Not everybody is a 9.200 yard ~an. So, that's the story with the boxing. So, when you went into law school did you drop 1t all together? One more year. My freshman year I boxed. I didn't go out much ~Y freshman year, I was finished with it at that point, but I boxed in }sehool intramural tournament my freshman year. Your freshman year in law school? Yes. I don't really believe I would have gone on with it anyway, but even for that year it was frowned upon, the school didn't especially like it. I have ~Y own private reasons that are no great shakes here, but I wanted one more year. I felt I needed for my own purposes that I needed that year. |
