If you are not the best, then pretend you are

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.