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How can you think and hit at the same time?

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.