You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

I'm a man of my word.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

A true champion will fight through anything.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

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.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

I like to control my own personal life.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Nobody is faster than me.

When you talking boxing, you talking me.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

I basically raised myself.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

You name him. I beat him.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.