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

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.

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

I want to be great, something special.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

I saw Todd Bridges talk about being abused on Oprah. Something that he said, or an expression that he made that gave me that little boost I needed to be open about it and to talk about it as transparently as I did. When I told my wife, she couldn't believe it. She was petrified, because it's such a no-no, taboo, a hands-off subject. But I'd have to say hearing Todd Bridges on Oprah was my watershed moment.