I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
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.
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
