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I didn't get along with most of the players I played against, but the one guy I did get along with was my greatest rival, so it can be done.

You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.

When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.