I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.