I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.

The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.

I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

There is no future, there is not past, I live this moment as my last, there's only this, forget regret, no other road, no other way, no day but today

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.