I thank God for blessing me with the tools that he blessed me with to be where I am.Collection: God
I learned patience. I'm not a real patient guy, but with me trusting in my coach, my managers and my team, I just trust the process and just continue to stay patient and just follow suit.Collection: Patience
I just want people to respect me for my talent, the skills I have and my willingness to face anybody.Collection: Respect
I pride myself on being unique in my own right. I wanted to be myself.
God blessed me with the talent I've been blessed with.
Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.
I always have the ability to believe in myself when nobody else does.
Viktor Postol is a great champion and he was dodged for a reason, but I ain't the type to duck and dodge anyone.
Boxing is a dangerous, cruel sport. I love the sport, but I don't want to see my kids in the ring, potentially being hurt, with me not being able to do nothing to help them.
Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.
I never had the opportunity to run up and hug my mom and tell her 'I love you,' and she tells me she loves me and hugs me back. I would want her to come to my fights and support me, but it never would happen.
At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.
When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.
I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.
It takes two people to fight, and it takes two companies to sit down and figure it out and decide what network we're going to fight on, where we're going to fight, what the purses are going to be.
I'm the best fighter in the division and I'm always willing to prove it.
I just want to leave a mark on the sport of boxing so people talk about me like they talk about the other great champions before me. That's my goal before I retire.
I used to stay getting in fights.
I always knew I could fight.
I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I'm not slow.
I feel confident matching up with anybody.
I done got hit with a belt, a toy, a stick, extension cord, a switch off a tree, whatever. At the same time, my pain tolerance went up... It came to the point where it built toughness... Yeah, it hurt, but I wasn't scared. I knew what was coming. Wasn't nothing I wasn't prepared for.
Amir Khan is a great fighter, I have a lot of respect for him.
I had to fight those type of fights which were high risk, low reward and at the start, I never could get the fights I really wanted.
My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.
This is boxing, everybody fights everybody.
You think we got it bad in Omaha, or in any city in the United States, and then you go to a different country and you see how bad they got it. You give those people a balloon and they'll cherish it like you gave them a chunk of gold.
As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?
I just stick to what I know, boxing.
I feel like I get better every fight.
I am a fighter and I will fight anybody.
This is not a sport for me - I live boxing. I've been boxing since I was seven years old.
As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It's in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.
I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.
I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.
I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.
I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.
It's always special to fight.
You never know what the future might hold.
I want to talk about how great of a father I am. How I never miss any of my kids' wrestling tournaments or big events like birthdays or holidays. I'm always there for anything to do with my kids.
I have a lot of family members and friends that depend on me.
I'd take bits and pieces from a fighter, if I liked what they did, and I'd put it in my arsenal. I never wanted to fight like or be like any other fighter. I wanted a style that was unique for me.
I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.
I felt like I've accomplished a lot in the boxing world that a lot of people don't give me credit for. But it's life. I don't trip over it.
If I see a fan talking down on my resume or another fighter, it just motivates me to go out there and prove them wrong and fight the fighters that they say will beat me or that will give me trouble in the ring. They ain't going to never really give you no credit, no matter what you do.
I never put it to where I say, 'I'm just this big pay-per-view star,' or 'I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.' No, I was just like, 'I'm gonna be a world champion. That's what I'm gonna be.'
Pacquiao earned the right to go out how he wants to go out. He had fought everybody there is to fight - when they was there to fight. He fought all the top names. Eight-division champion. He accomplished everything there is to do in the sport of boxing.
My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.
I just want to keep being successful.
You've got to remember where you come from.