“I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.”

“If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.”

“The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating”

"Mejor perder a lo macho que ganar a lo cobarde".

“How do you win a fight? Try to walk away, because you don't know how it's going to end.”

"Sé que mi boxeo es destructivo, pero me preocupo por mis rivales. Estoy en el mismo negocio y nunca se me olvida eso."

"Pegar sabemos desde que nacemos, lo difícil es hacerlo bien y hacerlo bonito, que esto es un arte."

“I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."”

“You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.”

“Va a ser difícil en los primeros rounds, pero al final, mi boxeo y mi clase se van a imponer”

"It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor."

''Después del combate yo me fui para mi casa y él para el hospital''

“I have to have someone who believes I can do it, just like I believe I can.”

“Cuando comencé en el boxeo, no tenía botas, y entrenaba solo descalzo hasta que me dolían los pies, por las astillas clavadas en la piel en el piso de madera; eso es el boxeo, y con tal de boxear lo hago de cualquier manera y con quien me pongan enfrente”.

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."

"Todo se lo debo a mi mánager y a la Virgencita de Guadalupe".