`I changed my style to upset him. We tricked him. The main thing is that he does not hit as hard as everyone says he does.'

- Marco Barrera

`I'll be back. He wouldn't charge in because he knew I would knock him out.'

- Naseem Hamed

`If he'd stuck with me he'd have been better than Muhammad Ali. . . . but the whole lot has gone to pieces now because he's got beat and Barrera will probably beat him again.'

- Brendan Ingle,