I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

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.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.