I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

I come from a poor family.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

It's just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

Memory revises me.

Whoever knows God, depart from evil.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I'm a real people-pleaser.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.