There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.

Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.