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

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

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

Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.

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

Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.

I haven't been with a woman in nine months.