I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.
I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.
If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.
At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.
I know I can fight; that's the only thing that matters to me.
The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.