“Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you’re entertaining people.”

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts – just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

If you don’t have God in your life, you are nothing.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we’re nothing.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

I’m just going to punch him and do my best. If the knockout comes, it comes.

I live my life like everyday is my last.

I’m not against gay people.

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

It’s just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I never compare myself to anybody. I don’t look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I’m happy with what I’ve accomplished in boxing.

Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.

Obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.

Nothing personal – I am just doing my job.

I know what poverty is.

I come from a poor family.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That’s my ideal fight.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That’s the only way out the hood sometimes.

It’s entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because… he has no idea.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It’s been a form of entertainment.

What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

My dad’s a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.