I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness
I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?
I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'
Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man
I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.
Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.
Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!
Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.
People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.
I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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