When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?