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Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.
I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.
I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.
It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.
I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.
You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.
When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.
I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
I am just focused on what's in front of me. I really can't worry about or complain about the WBO situation at this point.
I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.
It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
Get Julian Jackson in here baby!...Julian Jackson, winner take all baby, that's all I gotta say, winner take all! Arghhh!
That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man
After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.
Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
The difference between me and David Haye is that I want to be a fighter, he hates it, but he has to fight, remember that.
I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.
Adrian Granados is a world-class fighter. A lot of guys duck him, but I wanted to fight him because that's what I'm about.
Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.
My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.
People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.
I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.
I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.
I'm a boxer, and every fight could be my last. You just have to remember Michael Watson to know what boxing can do to you.
I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.
My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.