I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

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

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.