As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don’t train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds - I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.

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.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state.

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.