I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas