Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
I fight for perfection
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
