I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.