“When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.”

God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there.

I’ve never had a job. I’ve never needed to.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

I just want to be the best. I haven’t been in an all-out war. That doesn’t mean I’m not the best.

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

I come from a very rough background, and I’m saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I don’t have to fight if I don’t want to.

You can never overlook a guy.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn’t feel was right.

I’m not here to judge Mike Tyson. I’m not here to judge nobody. I’m not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

I’m a man of my word.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

I always put my boxing first.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

One’s desire, not ability, determines success.

We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.