We chose this opponent because he has a style similar to Morales', ... I think this fight will definitely help prepare him for the next fight.

You can celebrate birthday every year and fights like this (with Morales) comes once in a lifetime,

I want him working more on his technique and not just going out there and putting a show on for the fans that come and watch him train.

It's good because it gets him back in the gym, back into the mode of training for a big fight. ... Get him out of the pool hall a little bit.

It was a tactical fight and they were our tactics. The fight went the way we wanted it to go even though we didn't get the decision.

It was nice having them in the gym, but ... Manny was performing for them more than for me. I wanted him working on technique and so forth. ... They've respected it. They realize it's for his benefit and they want Manny to win.