When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

I function better when my back is to the wall.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.