It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

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.

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.

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

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.