“I just want to be the best. I haven’t been in an all-out war. That doesn’t mean I’m not the best.”

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.

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.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: “You’re useless” But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That’s how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.

One of my favorite things about being the host of ‘The School of Greatness’ is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.

All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.