You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

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 know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.