If I get a guy that can take my shots and withstand my arsenal for the first round or two, I think you're going to see the best of me coming forward.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.

As a tennis player, or any professional athlete, our career has a shelf life. I don't want to waste any opportunities, I don't want to look back on it when I'm 45 and think I could have done a lot more.

The thing about football is when you've got guys that work hard and do things the right way, it'll come together... it's supposed to if you put the work in.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.