The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

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.

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.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

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.

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.

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