It depends on my promoter Bob Arum.

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.

But reality had other ideas.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.

The art of love is God at work through you.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.