The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

Sure many people will be shocked when I win, but not me.

The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

I knew my time would come I just had to stay focused and disciplined and if you work hard good things happen. I am right where I am supposed to be.

I am no busier than I have ever been - I have always been a busy guy.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

I feel like I fight an aggressive style - smart / aggressive.

I am an aggressive style boxer and I will be in there to mix it up, but it's going to be in a smart way.

I box but I have never heard anyone say that I was a boring fighter or that they didn't really like watching my style.

I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

I've played too many tennis hours.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).