I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

I used to like studying a lot.

You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Excellence is the target of champions and winners.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.