When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then youre destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen. – Alexis Arguello
What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind. – Alexis Arguello
I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because Im a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me thats how it worked. – Alexis Arguello
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and thats why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it. – Alexis Arguello
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. – Benjamin Disraeli