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There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.
My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.
If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.
If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.
The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
When I stepped up a division I can remember suffering the worst fatigue I had ever felt. I noticed it massively.
My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
People will always have their opinions on how hard you trained, especially when they only see you on fight night.
Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.
I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.
He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.
Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.
Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.
Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam
I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.
If I'm winning and looking impressive and being on the scene, the fans are going to start demanding bigger fights.
At the end of the day, we fight for the legacy, but you don't want to be just a fighter with legacy with no money.
It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.
Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
Once you fill yourself with love, then you will have love to give to the rest of the world. This is my philosophy.
It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.
Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.
Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.