You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

You are stronger than you know.

The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.

You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.