“If we don’t have God in our life, we’re considered dead.”

I’m surprised that the fight was kind of easy.

I don’t mind having these relatives. I’ll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

Right now I’m inspired to fight for the honour of my country.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

It’s very relaxing for me to sing. It’s a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

I’m just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

Well you know it’s dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there’s a lot of killing in politics.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

For me, boxing isn’t about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.

I’m always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it’s because boxing is my passion.

We have a job to do. After the fight, I’ll love him.

As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don’t train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds – I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.

Between holding on and letting go october discerns october knows, that life lurks between the clouds of death and death breathes with every rebirth.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you’re in your other suit. You can’t see it on this level, but it’s all right. Don’t worry.

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.