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• ‟ I've seen a lot in my life and nothing really shocked me, just being where I'm from. But this was unexpected. It just hit me, like, I have cancer? Me?

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• ‟ I had such severe nerve damage that I didn't get the nerves all the way back. My pinky toe on my left foot is still numb, and I feel it when I'm in bed at night or when I'm by myself. That pins-and-needles feeling reminds me that life is precious, and don't take for granted what you have.

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• ‟ The doctors misdiagnosed me at first - they told me I had a pinched nerve. But my situation was getting worse. The tumor was cutting off the circulation in my nerves. And in two weeks' time, I was left paralyzed. I went from a cane to crutches to a walker to a wheelchair.

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• ‟ Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

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• ‟ To not only be a cancer survivor, but to return to the sport of boxing, because, I mean, this is not basketball, this is not baseball, this is not a sport you play. This is a sport where you can die in the ring. So it says a lot to me to come back and be a world champion in that aspect.

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• ‟ I don't want to be in a stable of guys that have to fight for the spotlight. I want to be with a promoter who is solely focused on me.

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• ‟ I remember being on my death bed, and I found out in the newspaper that the Barclays Center was opening and that they were going to have fights here and me not knowing if I would ever be able to box again, let alone perform here.

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• ‟ It's always been important for me to do things in the community, it's part of my upbringing.

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• ‟ Being bullied is the reason I got into boxing. When I was 14, I was being bullied by a kid in junior high school. I wanted to do this the right way. So we went to a boxing gym. We boxed, I beat him up in the ring. He never bullied me again and I found my passion in the sport of boxing.

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• ‟ The cancer battle, it helped me put a lot of things in perspective and gave me time to reflect and think.

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• ‟ I wouldn't give me a rematch, too, if I was Golovkin, to be honest with you.

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• ‟ I had to have 25 counts of radiation, and the radiation was an obstacle I had to get over, in and of itself. It took away my appetite completely, it changed my mood swings, it would make me feel nauseous all the time.

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• ‟ Mentally, I don't think there's anything that can discourage me.

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• ‟ When I was making my way to the ring and when I fight, to see people cheering for me, it makes me feel that I'm somebody special.

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• ‟ The little things I used to take for granted before I don't take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I'm much stronger, I'm more loving. I'm a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.

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• ‟ At the end of the day, don't bet against me. Don't bet against me.

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• ‟ Obviously I've had my setbacks, but those have enabled me to be the man I am today.

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• ‟ Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it to college. All the negative things were all around me.

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• ‟ My grandmother was very strict. She and my mom wouldn't let me hang around the streets. It wasn't my lifestyle.

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