On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation.

It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.

He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.

If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.

I don't like to get hit, who likes it? I probably wouldn't do this sport if I was getting hit that much.

In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.