God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.