When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.

Things don't make me a person. Character does.

And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

God would be the strangest thing to exist.