One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I love my country. If they don't love me, I don't care.

It was so hard to survive - moving so much, not having many friends. But I loved my skating.

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.