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.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

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

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.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

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.