“I’m a man of my word.”

I don’t have to fight if I don’t want to.

You can never overlook a guy.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn’t feel was right.

I’m not here to judge Mike Tyson. I’m not here to judge nobody. I’m not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

I always put my boxing first.

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

You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody’s going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

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.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.