“Compassion and toughness can go together.”

“It doesn't matter how far you go as a boxer..It matters how far you go as a man!”

“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.”

“It's time to reconnect to people you like and get rid of people you don't like....We need to live.”

“There are more pleasent things to do than beat up people. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

“The moment we stop fighting for the underdog is the moment we lose humanity.”

“Boxing is the image of the Vietnam war with none of its guilt and only 25 percent of its dangers. It is like a sin. Too popular to be abolished.”