I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

Gil Clancy told me to move around for six or seven rounds, but when you're a puncher and you catch someone, you got after them. And in that fight [with George Foreman in 1999] my timing was off and I got caught.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.