I fight for perfection
In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
I am not a role model.
This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?