I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."