The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

People do that sometimes. Change.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

I do politics in order to do policy.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.