Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.