If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.
I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
I have already bent time to my will.
The worst damage a person - a fighter or even a person that's just everyday living - is shorten your life by your lifestyle.
I love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.
The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.
I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.
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.
If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.
I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.
I'm tired of proving myself.
Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.
