Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.