The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

But people get these crazy ideas, ... I went on my own roller-coaster ride to gain acceptance from Mexican-American fight fans. It was very difficult and frustrating. There were times when I felt like shouting, 'I can be your hero too.' And there were times, like my fights against Ike Quartey and even against Fernando Vargas, when I fought more aggressively and took more risks than I should have to please those fans.

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

Perhaps we should acknowledge where others come from, as it might just be where we are headed.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.