Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

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.

I saw Todd Bridges talk about being abused on Oprah. Something that he said, or an expression that he made that gave me that little boost I needed to be open about it and to talk about it as transparently as I did. When I told my wife, she couldn't believe it. She was petrified, because it's such a no-no, taboo, a hands-off subject. But I'd have to say hearing Todd Bridges on Oprah was my watershed moment.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

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.