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

Courage is how bad you want it.

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.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.