“The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.”

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

You never lose until you actually give up.

Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.

I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.

There’s nothing like confidence.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

My father’s a character.

Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.