“I didn’t even know about amateur boxing, period.”

We knew Stiverne was tough. You’ve got to give it to him. He’s got a tough chin.

Everybody has their due season. And it’s all about what you do in your season.

I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting – the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn’t got me this far for no reason. I feel like God has a plan for me in this sport. That’s how I have came up this fast.

It don’t matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I’m going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

I don’t know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn’t do it the right way.

There’s no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I’m the most athletic heavyweight in the division.

Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I’m going to get you, I’m going to get you.

I’m not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.

My right hand is a monster.

I am very comfortable travelling and going into other territories.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

I don’t see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

Street fight, you just ground and pound ’em. Boxing is totally different.

My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

God’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

Hope begins in the dark.