I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.