Andre Ward

My mind-set is my major attribute.

I'm a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.

This is called prizefighting for a reason.

My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.

My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.

Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.

One of the reasons why I signed up with Roc Nation was because of their ability to not just have a vision of doing things but the actual ability and resources to carry that vision out.

There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.

I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

When people ask me, 'What do you do for fun?' - it's my family. That's it.