Going to Russia is going to be nothing for me. I'm going to treat it like it's the U.S. because, at the end of the day, it's one man, one ring.

I'm always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I'm LeBron James.

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.

My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.

My right hand is a monster.

People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.

There comes a time when you have to put forth the action and actually see whether you're really just talking to promote yourself, just to sell yourself, or to build your confidence or build confidence around you... or are you the real deal?

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.

When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.

I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.

Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don't feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don't really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don't care.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.

I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing 'Rocky IV.' I am doing the black 'Rocky.'

People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reason. I feel like God has a plan for me in this sport. That's how I have came up this fast.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.

I work way too hard in the gym to woo the judges and just skate by.