Friendships can go only so far.

The heavyweight division needs me.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

I've got plenty of contacts in Hollywood.

My life out of the ring caught up with me.

Very few fighters get a chance to come back.

I've always been painted as this party animal.

I will lay down and die before I take any drugs.

People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.

I was one of the most popular fighters of my era.

I would welcome a Mike Tyson fight with open arms.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

I've had a lot of people tell me I'm faster than Tyson.

I'm going to bring the championship home to Kansas City.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

There's nothing more intimidating than crawling into a ring.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.

The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.

In the heavyweight division, you can't afford to make a mistake.

I couldn't fart in an elevator without people wanting to sue me.

I hate being around boxing people. I'd rather be back in the gym.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support.

The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.

I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.

Everyone wants to see the heavyweight division unified. It'll happen.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

You don't knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.

I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.

People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.

The rush you get from competing in front of the whole world, there's nothing like it.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

The rug was yanked out from under my feet by a misdiagnosis. All I want to do is fight.

Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

HIV changed my life, but I think I've accepted it. I don't even think about it unless someone brings it up.

People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.

I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he's got one of the best chins in the game.

Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.

I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.

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