The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

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.

Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

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.