“I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.”

There’s ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

I think I already proved that I wasn’t just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

I push myself to the limit.

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

I’ll back up anything my dad says.

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it’s not a lie.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, ‘I think I should get a job.’ She said, ‘No, just keep boxing.’

I’m always focused.

Everything people say I couldn’t do I’ve done.

I haven’t took no punishment. There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

There comes a time when money doesn’t matter.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn’t have electricity.

I’m just an American dream.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

He who believes needs no explanation.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don’t, no one else will.