“I wasn’t too excited about school, I’m not going to lie.”

I paid attention how to land a big shot, like Oscar De La Hoya with the left hook.

It doesn’t matter how much experience Jayson Velez has, whether he fought for a world title or not. I’m going to see how he fights, and I’ll know what to do.

I’ve been working on my defense and my inside game.

I want to test my will.

I have the following, I have the talent and I have the work ethic. I just want to be great and I feel like everyone is trying to control me.

I’m not afraid of failure.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won’t amount to crap, and that I’m going to be a bust.

I’m ready to test my skills with the best fighters.

I know pretty much all my analytics and I take that into consideration when I’m posting.

I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I’m dead serious when I say that – those are my heroes. I also like Ben Affleck.

Boxing is dangerous. Anything can happen, so you need supreme confidence. That’s why I represent myself like nobody can beat me, because I need to truly believe it.

You need the trash talk, and I’m an entertainer. I don’t care if I look positive or not.

I want to be the best so I am ready to do anything.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

I love to box, because I think boxing is an art.

I’m trying to involve the fans and bring in a crowd where not only do they love boxing but they love me as a person.

I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.

The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They’re genuinely excited and appreciative that you’re playing their country.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.