Boxing is about discipline.
Blood, sweat, and tears.
I love boxing with all my heart.
And you got to know there's no shortcuts.
There's no shortcuts.
It takes years of hard work and practice.
You love something you have to work at it every day.
And when you love something, it's not really work anymore.
That passion drives you.
A hundred years ago, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world,
like the most dangerous ghetto in the world,
right up the block was called the Five Points,
which are all the immigrants to come off the boats right here,
right into the Lower East Side, what you call it, LES.
Lower East Side.
This is the gym, this is the restaurant.
Saturday in New York City.
Forget about it.
Yeah, so they call it in New York, the city that never sleeps,
but I call it the city of champions.
Because there's been work for so much in this city, for so little.
Work, everybody works 60, 80 hours a week to bust the ass for nothing.
But it's a great time and place to be a part of.
Me, I'm a chef in a boxer.
So I wake up at 10, I go to the gym for three hours,
then I go, then I go to the chef, and I work in the kitchen.
Then I go home, sleep, and I do that all over again.
Every single day I have to work at it.
And the hustle hard, I call it the New York hustle.
The New York State of mind.
It's about being hungry.
Because you know there's a thousand other people out there that might be better than you.
Or are better than you.
So we have to work hard for that.
I love boxing, I love fighting, I love cooking.
You know, so you gotta love New York.
In fact, there's so many beautiful, great women all over the world here.
I mean, they keep me busy at times when I'm not busy in the kitchen or in the boxing ring.
It's about the hustle and the pursuit.
Because even at the end of the day, at the end of my life,
if I don't get to be a champion boxer or celebrity chef, it's about the pursuit.
If I don't get there, if I continue to pursue it when I die, it's not a waste of life.
