Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

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

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

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

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.