“Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.”

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I want to keep fighting because it’s the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you’ve got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.