I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.