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

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.

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

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

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

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

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.