You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

B students work for C students - A students teach.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!