“This is a pretty barbaric game. You can’t really let emotions get into the way.”

I want to test my will.

I have the following, I have the talent and I have the work ethic. I just want to be great and I feel like everyone is trying to control me.

I’m not afraid of failure.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won’t amount to crap, and that I’m going to be a bust.

I’m ready to test my skills with the best fighters.

I know pretty much all my analytics and I take that into consideration when I’m posting.

I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I’m dead serious when I say that – those are my heroes. I also like Ben Affleck.

Boxing is dangerous. Anything can happen, so you need supreme confidence. That’s why I represent myself like nobody can beat me, because I need to truly believe it.

You need the trash talk, and I’m an entertainer. I don’t care if I look positive or not.

I want to be the best so I am ready to do anything.

I wasn’t too excited about school, I’m not going to lie.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

I love to box, because I think boxing is an art.

I’m trying to involve the fans and bring in a crowd where not only do they love boxing but they love me as a person.

You can be a champion and you can be flashy with money and cars but you have a big platform. What are you trying to change?

Just like I have all the capabilities to become a big star, Golden Boy has all the tools to get me there.

TOMS didn’t have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that’s sustainable.

We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?

Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

Mind your own business and don’t eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

The right way is the hard way.

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.