I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.