Faith is my motivation to win.

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.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

You never leave your partner! Especially in a fire!

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.