“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

The game’s been good to me and I hope I’ve been good to the game. I’m 50 years old and I’ve pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

Either I believe I can be the best heavyweight fighter in the world and beat everyone, or I will not. I feel I can beat everyone as a heavyweight.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what’s necessary.

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When a person gets up and says ‘I can still do it’, he’s a champion.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re not going to forgive your kids, either.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it’s finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it’ll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y’know, always come with just a little sadness.

The cat and mouse game is smart, but people want to see fighters who come to win, or do not wait to go to the judges. When the fight goes all the way, they see the spirit of the person that wants to win.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

My heart can’t take this damage.

Please stop making me think you care if you don’t.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.