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

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

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.

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.