I am very happy that Floyd Mayweather and I can give the fans the fight they have wanted for so many years.

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.

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

The two partners in a relationship also need to have some similar interests in addition to a similar life view.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.