Athlete

With Evander Holyfield, I anticipate this being a hard fight. But each time out, you don't want it to be a hard fight. Not to mention, you burn yourself out that way.

One fight, I went away to train and my little girl was in Pampers. I came home and she was potty-trained. She was crawling when I left and walking when I came home. These are things I don't want to miss anymore.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

Being a little kid, you don't hear much about racism. You figure everybody's the same. If racism isn't taught, you're just a black kid and a white kid together.

Any promoter who wants to put me on their card, I'm willing to fight.

If somebody tells you that after being champion you're not going to miss the attention, he's lying to you.

I love to eat, and I have no problem telling anybody that.

What would I do without boxing? That's the question, isn't it?

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

I like a truck because it's big like I am, and I think I'll have a lot of fun working with it.

I have a bus that's 40 feet long. When I was in training camp, I was scared to fly, so I used the bus.

Well I love to fight.

The heavyweight champion of the world shouldn't just be heavyweight champion of the world. He should use his position to help other people, such as myself.

Boxing's all I know. At 40, what else am I going to do?

I'm a big cat. I'm 6-5. I'm not worried about weight. Nobody's coming to see a weight fight. They're coming to see the Big Dog fight.

Chris Byrd is a good fighter, but I put him to sleep in five, seven rounds.

I hate hearing my voice on the radio.

I'm capitalizing on a lot of mistakes that champions made before me. I hear a lot of guys say if they were champion again they would do things differently and respect people more. I plan to do that while I'm still champion.

I love talking to the people. You've seen how many tweets I do. I love the people.

There's a lot of racism around. I am always puzzled when people have that attitude. I went to a place where people were nice to me. It was something that stuck with me. I learned to treat people the same.