“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 am the best. There is nobody better than me.

A true champion will fight through anything.

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can’t make mistakes.

If I’m scared and I’m a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.

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 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.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.

If you want to get things you can’t buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.