I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

This quote is a reflection on the differences in circumstances between the speaker and Bob Arum. The speaker is black and was a former convict and “number runner,” while Bob Arum is white and Jewish and used to work for a prosecutor’s office. The implication is that Bob Arum—with his more privileged background—had 100 times better odds of succeeding than the speaker did. But despite the odds, the speaker was successful and was able to beat Bob Arum at “everything we ever done.” The speaker expresses his success and his good relationship with Bob Arum as a thing of love.