I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

Keep trying no matter how many times you have failed.If you fail, try, try again.Never stop trying.You success will come unexpected.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

The moment is a gracious gift.

Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

You never play age, you play character.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.