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.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.

This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.