Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football, too.

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.