I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.

Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.