In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

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.

It's sad that we get attached to the way certain people abuse us. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that it's okay to miss someone, but not want them back.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!

Visionaries are limited by their visions.

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'