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

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

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 think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a black eye. In politics you can obviously get either dioxin in the food or bullet in the head.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.

There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.