Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

Bisexuality started a long, long time ago. You just have to support it. There's nothing wrong with it. We all bleed the same, we're all going one way in the end - six feet down. I support the gays...

I'm very laid back, but if someone is on me my temper goes. The fight comes out, the nastiness, the spitefulness. That's always been there.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Tommy Hearns was a masterful boxer who was tall, rangy, and had a fast jab.

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my...

You have to love your job. If you are an actor, you have to have a dream to get an Oscar, not just to earn money. When you get your Oscar, you earn money too. But this is second.

I don't care if you are white, black, Mexican, Chinese or a MaxBoxing columnist, you all a bunch of sissies to me.

I got speed and power. I got two things. And I've all the other aspects of boxing.

If I'm getting hurt, there's no way in hell I'm waving the white flag. You're either beating me or the corner or the ref stops the fight. I'm not going to quit.

I know how to control the distance, I know how to counter real good.

If people have to train outside, in the woods, they're not disciplined.

Every fight is a must-win because we are winners.

The Etihad Arena is very nice.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're...

I think I have enough experience and I have enough power, speed, boxing quality, to fight against the best.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

We trying to bring back the old-school boxing.

As a younger boy growing up I've always found myself in fights. But I never started them.

For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life.

You have to believe in yourself.

I want a bit of peace and quiet in my life after burning the candle at both ends.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

I have no grudges against Golden Boy, they're a good company. I can do business with them. I can do business with Top Rank, whoever is going to be fair.

At 140lb, what else was there left for me to do? I'd completed boxing in a sense and won every single belt you can win.

I've got good timing and footwork.

My mother and father were born in the big country, the U.S.S.R. But my father was really born in Moldova and he spoke only Moldovan until he was 10.

The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever...