I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

I come from a poor family.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

It's just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.

New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?