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

Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.