I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.