It's good because it gets him back in the gym, back into the mode of training for a big fight. ... Get him out of the pool hall a little bit.

It was nice having them in the gym, but ... Manny was performing for them more than for me. I wanted him working on technique and so forth. ... They've respected it. They realize it's for his benefit and they want Manny to win.

It was a tactical fight and they were our tactics. The fight went the way we wanted it to go even though we didn't get the decision.

In the last fight, the game plan went out the window,

It's nice to win, ... I still feel like I'm in the spring training mode. Sometimes I feel really good. Sometimes I feel off balance. Those are things you go through in spring training. I'm trying to put it together in such a short window of time.

What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?