I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

I’m going to fight again because this wasn’t a fight.

If Tyson will come down to 200 and train the way he did for Buster Douglas, I’d fight him in a minute. Everybody wants a piece of him now.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren’t, … But I must live my life.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Because we ought to get back in the ring for one more time. The people would love it. It would be a hot item today.

Manny won’t train me anymore,

But I feel age is only a number. And if you train hard, you stay in tip-top shape – which I’ve always done – you can do whatever your will is. I want to live...

I started slow, … I thought, ‘This can’t be happening to me.’ I was very alert, very aware, but around the fourth round, some of the rust started coming off and I juiced it up.

Manny [Steward] won’t train me anymore. He said he doesn’t want me to get hurt. And that this is too much of a risk. Said he wants to remember me the way I was.