Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

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.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.