I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

I have a checkered past, but this is the greatest country in the world. I certainly deserve a second chance to sweep the past away.

I had not looked past my first fight because anything can happen in boxing. I just concentrate on one fight at a time and not even think about anything else.

When you walked in that house, you saw nothing of that past life.

They have destroyed my life, ... My hand swelled up. My hands were as big as boxing gloves. My fingers were fat, my fingernails, as you can see, are deformed -- and this is after 34 years.