If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

I basically raised myself.

My team calls all the shots out of the ring, I call them in the ring.

Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.