“What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.”

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.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.

I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”

We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.

I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.

I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.

We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Knowledge is pain that’s why it hurts to know.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.