Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

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.

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.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.