I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

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

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

Fighters are never who they appear to be

I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.