“The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.”

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Nobody is my boss.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I like to look good, my friend.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing i did right. You’re the one thing i did right.

Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.

The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.

Humans are vulnerable, because theyre capable of being hurt.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.