“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 my life to the fullest, and I'm in God's hands. I know God watches out for me. He has this far.”
“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.”