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.

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

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.