“What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.”

I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.

I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”

We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.

I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.

I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.

We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

Knowledge is Life with wings