I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.