I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

You love only those who deserve it.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.