There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

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.

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.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It’s just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it." - excerpt from: freefalling

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Do this or you’ll burn in hell.