No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

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.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

It's better to swallow pride than blood.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.