Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

I was born to be champion of the world

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

There is only one legend. That's me

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.

You only need to move your body to the rhythm of the music.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

If you hate me, you only harm yourself.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.