I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

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.

Politicians and children have two speeds: running and asleep.

If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.