I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

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.

instinct leads me to another flow

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

The path to success requires you to commit.

She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

People scream at me, "Hey, let's party." I give off an I'm-crazy-and-I-want-to-arty-and-wrestle-you vibe.

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.