You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

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

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.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.