I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

I feel like me fighting Pacquiao and beating him would boost my career higher than its ever gonna go.

I'm not worried about what the critics say, or how they feel I should go with my career.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace that, and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I think it's pretty cool, the opportunity that I have, especially in sports. There's really not that many out athletes. It's important to be out and to live my life that way.

Before I left for American University, my mother told me to sign up for everything I could: to take advantage of everything from on-campus lectures to sports and social events to the amazing D.C. culture.