Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.

Most of my fights are intelligent.

My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches.

I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.

No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.

I would love to play with the Flyers. I got the two front teeth missing, so I can look the part. I'm ready cosmetically. I could fit right in.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

It's two sides to everybody. I'm a manager - I'm a promoter - and I'm a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That's a balance there.

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.