If an opportunity comes to knock out my opponent, I'm going to take it.
It's the people that I see every day in Baltimore that motivate me.
These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.
It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.
I'm the cash cow, I believe, so at 135 or 130, I'm selling out arenas, putting butts in the seats.
I have a lot of boxing skills.
I want to keep getting better and better.
I hope Gamboa brings the best out of me so that people can see that I'm not just a power puncher.
Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.
We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.
If the right opportunity comes, I'd definitely come back to 130.
My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.
I'm from a city where the tears never end and the pain never stops.
I come from a city with a lot of violence and things like that, but my mind was always focused on what I wanted to be in life.
I won my first nationals when I was 10 years old.
I've seen the world and I've seen the bigger picture.
I've been in the gym, I've been training and I've been getting the Ws. I think that played a factor in me staying out of trouble outside the ring, staying focused on what's in front of me, and that's my boxing career.
There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.
A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.
I know how to box, how to move my feet.
