I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

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.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

I think growth covers up mistakes.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.