Ultimately, I feel like I'm doing everything right. I'm slowly but surely climbing up the ladder. I'm taking out bigger names with every fight. Not just beating them on a point level - I'm finishing every single one of my opponents.

For me, I love doing what is said can't be done.

I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

I've never met a fighter who said, 'I love cutting weight.'

I'm human, and we all make mistakes. But just because you're knocked down, you don't have to stay down. Get up and fight.

I want to go out and help people and share love where love is needed.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

You know how it is: you're a kid, and you see your parents do something, you tend not to want to follow that and do your own thing.

To bring out the best in someone, you really have to push them.

I have my parents to keep me in check, a team that loves me, and I have the ability to go out there, dream, and chase it.

There's little windows that open up during the fight, to finish your opponent. Whenever those windows open, I'm jumping right through them without hesitation.

Fighting is great, but I can't do it forever.

The Harbor Area is everything - Carson, Wilmington, San Pedro, Long Beach, that whole little bubble that I grew up in. I always throw it up after I finish fighting, I always throw up the Harbor Area. Out of pride. It made me who I am. It brought me my goods; it brought me my bads. It molded me into who I am.

My fifth pro fight, I got my first title fight.

As a pro, in the beginning, I had to sell tickets to get paid. So you gotta be a hustler, and you gotta worry about fighting.

I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to fight.

I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.

I keep training hard, keep working out, keep looking at my fights, and I wonder, 'If I was to fight me, how would I beat me?' It's like having a boat with a bunch of holes. I'm trying to patch up all the holes. If I was to fight myself, I'd take advantage of certain things. I've got to know my opponent is thinking the same thing.

A lot of people have these fancy facilities, these fancy training atmospheres, high-tech this and that... I believe it's about the fighter and how much work is he willing to put. I'm trying to show the world that I can make it happen from a garage. People don't believe it, but I know how to work with what I've got to get to the top.

I always try not to look too far ahead. I just look far enough to know where I'm going next.

When I go in to fight week, I go, 'Maybe I'm going to be that guy on the highlight reel that gets knocked out.' I'm always thinking, 'How am I going to react? Am I going to be a sore loser?' I'm almost checking myself in case something bad happens.

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

All I do is just live in the gym.