You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
A true champion will fight through anything.
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
A true champion can adapt to anything.
I'm a man of my word.
When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
I push myself to the limit.
You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
I like to control my own personal life.
