I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

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.

Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.