After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

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

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

Klitschko has had a good career. A lot of his fights have been out of the country as though he hasn't even been invited into the real heavyweight picture in the United States. He's a good fighter. You can't talk about him unless you can beat him and it doesn't seem that there's anyone around who can truly beat him.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

Its very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... youre not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.