RIDDICK BOWE

Don't worry about me. Worry about the next man. If you see me in a fight, don't help me. Pour honey on me and then help the bear. Don't worry about me. I'm Dorothy Bowe's baby boy. I'm going to be all right.

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.

My main goal is Vitali Klitschko. I figure eight rounds, I nail him with a right hand, a left-right combination and it's a wrap.

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.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

No matter what, God is on my side. I'm not perfect, but I'm not the worst, either.

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.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

I have a great responsibility, not only to my fans, but to kids who are going to look up to me.

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

I had to fight to put my socks on. That's why I'm a great fighter. My brothers and sisters didn't realize they were creating a monster. And then that monster made it to the Hall of Fame.

Well I love to fight.

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'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 think people always misjudge me.

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

Oh man, I would love to fight Evander Holyfield. I don't think any of the other great heavyweights fought four times - that's history in itself.

Man, I'm gonna tell you something about Evander Holyfield, when he fights a guy like me and I fight I guy like him, we always bring the best out of each other so by no means should anyone out there ever think that a fight like that is a cake walk because it's not.

I miss boxing. I miss everybody and everything. I miss the attention.

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

For me, hard work and determination got me in the Hall of Fame.

I had a goal. I was on a mission. And somewhere along the line I lost sight of what I was supposed to be doing. I got out of my training program.

People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I'm proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.

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.

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