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#1. If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.

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#2. I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.

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#3. Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.

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#4. I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"

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#5. My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

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#6. Always push beyond what you can do.

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#7. For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

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#8. I believe that he's a boring fighter.

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#9. He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.

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#10. If there's a best, I want to fight them.

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#11. As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

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#12. Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

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#13. Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

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#14. Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.

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#15. People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

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#16. Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.

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#17. Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.

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#18. I was always into cartoons and animation.

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#19. I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.

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#20. You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

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#21. Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

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#22. Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

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#23. In school I was pretty fast.

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#24. My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

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#25. I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.

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#26. I have a lot of respect for Mexico.

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#27. The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

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#28. I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.

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#29. He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.

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#30. I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.

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#31. I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.

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#32. I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.

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#33. I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.

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#34. A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.

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#35. I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

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#36. I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.

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#37. I'm training everyday, even though I should be resting.

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#38. My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.

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#39. I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

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#40. With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

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#41. He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.

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#42. Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

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#43. As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

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#44. I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali ... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

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#45. As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

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#46. When you do your best, there is no impossibility.

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#47. All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

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#48. He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

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#49. Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

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#50. Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.

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#51. The best feeling is to win by knockout.

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#52. If you try your best, you can always be better.

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#53. We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.

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#54. I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

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