I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.