I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.

I just love to fight, and regardless of who I'm fighting, I want to be at the top level.

I see myself fighting for about six more fights and I'll be done and happy with my career.

I'm not going to be a name chaser. I just love to fight.

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

The winner leaves undefeated and a lot of people will say they are the top guy at welterweight. I would definitely like a crack at that title, being the top guy at welterweight.

Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

Much in our lives is chance.

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They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents