Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.

I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Iran is the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and I am not going to stop until that problem is properly solved.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.