There is only one legend. That's me

I was born to be champion of the world

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.