The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

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

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

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.

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

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.

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.