To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.