"...I started training four months in advance in order to get the rust out to make sure that the timing and the power is there, the speed is there. Actually just about three weeks ago is when I finally felt it click in me, that my speed was there, my power, my timing. So it's no concern whatsoever that I'll feel rusty inside the ring come May 6...."
"...Well the weight is going to be a big factor. When I weigh in come May 5, the night before, I'll be at 151, 152 tops, and that's my natural weight cap there. That's where I belong, so it makes me feel confident that I'm going to be fighting at 154..."
T.J. SIMERS: By the way, I understand you're going to on the Tonight Show with Dr. Phil on Monday night. I don't like that guy. Is there anything you can do about that?
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: I will ask him a few questions, see if he has a few pointers for me.
T.J. SIMERS: Just what you need, a psychologist.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: How about if I give him a little left hook? :laugh2:
T.J. SIMERS: Thank, see you next week.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: Thank you.
"...I mean he doesn't keep me up at night... You know I'm very content with my career, and what I've accomplished and what I've done and I wouldn't change anything. I've learned and grown from mistakes, I've learned and grown from things I've done inside and outside the ring, which is the important thing, growing from your mistakes. But I just feel that the options I have, for instance, Winky Wright. He beat Mosley, he beat Trinidad, so it's kind of like killing two birds with one stone if I fight Winky Wright. I can fight Trinidad who was the guy who beat me and the guy who had that controversial win with me, or else I can go up and fight Floyd Mayweather, Junior who's a pound for pound champion of the world today..."
KARL FREITAG: I was wondering, you didn't go away for any kind of training camp, you're just going home at night after the gym, right?
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: Exactly.
KARL FREITAG: So, how's this going to play out differently in the fight compared to going to a Spartan training camp like you usually do.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: You know it's better. It's better because I come home and I can rest in my own bed, and I wake up in the morning and my family's here. It's so comforting. The energy is just different, and I've actually had several training camps in Big Bear where I have my wife and my family there with me, and one of them was when I fought Vargas, another one was when I fought Mosley (ph) the second time. I have that family support and I think it turns out for the better.
KARL FREITAG: Are you looking Mayweather now that he's a free agent?
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: Well that will be like a dream come true for Golden Boy Promotions.
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ROBERT MORALES: Hey, Oscar, one last thing. On Myorga's call he said that the reason he started disliking you came years ago when you first kicked Chavez's ass. He said that's the reason why he started disliking you. Basically he made it sound like because you're both Mexicans that you should have let Julio win just because he was everybody's idol. Now do you think he really believes that or is that something he pulled out of his ass to justify the way he's been acting?
OSCAR DE LA HOYA: No, he pulled that one out of left field. That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. No, you know it's funny because when we shot the commercial, that's when we first met. We shook hands and everything, and then all of a sudden he like flips, I don't know what it was, he started getting emotional. It was weird. You know, here we are shaking hands, and then all of a sudden he just flips and he started talking and revving himself up and oh I'm going to knock you out, and this and that, and I was like, whoa this guy has some problems. So ever since then, then he like started attacking me and this and that and that's how it started.