I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

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

I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.