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 was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

I retired and came back in '97. Woo! I mean, come on! I don't know, man. A six-year layoff? That was crazy! My career was relatively short, whether you look at either its length in years or the number of fights I had. But it was brutal.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.