I am a fighter and I will fight anybody.
This is not a sport for me - I live boxing. I've been boxing since I was seven years old.
God blessed me with the talent I've been blessed with.
I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.
I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.
I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.
It's always special to fight.
You never know what the future might hold.
I have a lot of family members and friends that depend on me.
If I see a fan talking down on my resume or another fighter, it just motivates me to go out there and prove them wrong and fight the fighters that they say will beat me or that will give me trouble in the ring. They ain't going to never really give you no credit, no matter what you do.
I never put it to where I say, 'I'm just this big pay-per-view star,' or 'I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.' No, I was just like, 'I'm gonna be a world champion. That's what I'm gonna be.'
Pacquiao earned the right to go out how he wants to go out. He had fought everybody there is to fight - when they was there to fight. He fought all the top names. Eight-division champion. He accomplished everything there is to do in the sport of boxing.
My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.
I just want to keep being successful.
It's always been my goal to fight the best fighters out there, and I look at Amir Khan as one of the top fighters in my division.
There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.
Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter's performance to when it isn't their favorite fighter in any positive thought.
My job is to go in there and fight who is in front of me.
A lot of people try to take away the things I have done and try to give other people credit for the things they have done and won't give me the same amount of credit in the ring for doing the same things or more.
I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.
