Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I was born to be champion of the world

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

There is only one legend. That's me

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.

Whether it's good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

I live or die by how well I act.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.