The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

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.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.