The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God’s guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.