“But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.”

But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

I was never trained for anything

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics,