Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

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.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.

All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

It is not a war. It is murder.