I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.

Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.

It's not Beirut or Bosnia.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

I knew it was all or nothing.

It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.

Joe Calzaghe was using the excuse, no one knows who I am in America. Now everyone knows who I am in America.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.