“I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can’t go back to their children.”

There comes a time when you have to put forth the action and actually see whether you’re really just talking to promote yourself, just to sell yourself, or to build your confidence or build confidence around you… or are you the real deal?

Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that – it was a heavenly sound to me.

My dream was to play for Alabama – football, basketball.

This is no game. You get up in there, and you take some punches. You risk your life, and then let me see you talk then. That’s why I don’t respect people who criticize fighters.

I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.

When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent’s head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that’s in the past out.

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

I’m ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?

My goal is to unify the division. Whoever’s got those belts, that’s who I want.

Every guy I touch, it’s the same result. When I land, it’s like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you’ve got a dangerous man on your hands.

To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.

I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.