I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

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.

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

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

I want to be great, something special.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.