After a good training camp, pushing myself, learning new things, I always feel confident coming back to New Zealand.

I believe that every fight we've had is a big fight, and every fight we've had is a fight where I've learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it's sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

I dropped Nascimento in the first round, but he came back, and I had to dig really deep because he was gaining the whole time. He ruptured my left ear drum with a right hand in the fifth round, which caused a few hearing problems, but I was able to overcome it.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

Walking down the street, it's a humbling feeling. Everyone stopping you for photos and autographs, it's real humbling.

I was upset about not going to the Olympics. It was a dream of mine, and I'd been working at it for a long time. But I've turned pro now; it's in the past, and there's nothing I can do about it.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

You not only have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring.

I feel good about my first professional fight. I was ready for it, and it was a good win for me.

So I have, like, more than a 100 cousins all over the world now.

I've put my degree on hold, but I will finish it.

If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

I'm getting more confident in what I can do in the ring, and that just comes with hard work and training.

Having watched the Botha fight, I wanted to get him out of there, but I didn't really want to hurt him as bad.

When you take a break from something you love doing, you just feel like it's time to get back into it; you feel like you've been missing out on something.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself.

Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason - in boxing, in sport, in life.

My views on piracy and illegal streaming are I think it's illegal for a reason, and I feel like there's a lot of people working hard behind the scenes to get the fights going and showing things on TV.

I'm all about respect and I never get outside myself as far as calling people out.

I don't believe someone like Cejudo would be scared of somebody.

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

I'm not going to bag on people and make funny jokes about my opponent. I just respect every opponent I go in against.

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.