ON THE surface, it sounds like frustration speaking. Dig deeper and it's clear it's the raw ambition and self-belief that has accompanied every boisterous step of Anthony Mundine's eight-year boxing career.
Of Danny Green's failure to act on a massive offer for a rematch: "Danny is the dodger of dodgers. He should forget about being on that silly dancing show and spend his time at a carnival driving dodgem cars. That's what he is good at. His manager wants the rematch. He knows it's an offer that is too good to refuse but he thumbs his nose.
"I'll fight him at any weight he wants in his backyard but he just delays and delays. He should move out of Perth and live in Dodge City."
Of Joe Calzaghe: "He says I can't punch but he runs faster than [Usain] Bolt. He knows what I'd do to him and he knows the money is there to fight me but he won't let me in. He's afraid I'd show him up."
And of his latest targets, middleweight champions Kelly Pavlik, Felix Sturm and Daniel Geale: "The money is there for them but they've been schooled by Danny Green. Dodgers."
Which brings us to his opponent on Wednesday night, South American Rafael Sosa Pintos. He arrived in Australia on Thursday with an imposing record (31-2), but without the name and title.
He will meet a fighter - a two-time world champion - who still has plenty to prove. And that's why "The Man" is training harder than ever.
"I've stepped it up," he said. "If these people who run and run think they will douse my fire, take away my ambition, they are wrong. So wrong.
"They don't know what goes on inside of me. What drives me. My natural ability is there for everyone to see. What they don't see is the work behind the scenes that makes what I do look so good. I am more determined now than at any time of my fighting career."
On Wednesday night Mundine returns to Liverpool. To the EG Whitlam Centre, where he forged his super-middleweight career.
It's hardly an arena of dreams but for Mundine it's a place that holds special memories.
"There's something special about taking the fight to the people and the place where I honed my skills," he said. "It's the place of true believers."
In many ways he is starting again in his new division.
"I love the challenge of pushing my way back up the ranks," he said.
"People are writing me off wherever I go. They can do that if they want and get ready to swallow those words. They are designed to cut me as they come out. When I shove them in their throats, they will choke. And I'll laugh inside."
Respected trainer Johnny Lewis is delighted Mundine is down a weight division. He thinks it was a mistake to wait as long as he did.
"He'll be a physically imposing fighter in this division," he said. "Big in the shoulder. He carries nothing in his legs. Then there is his speed. It's second to none. In the super-middleweight he was fighting against fighters with more size and reach than him. He'll have that advantage at his new weight. He'll be devastating."
Mundine has rarely looked better. But he is carrying a couple of injuries.
Then there is his eyesight. It's still not right after an accident with his contact lens last year. He struggles in certain light to see. His vision is blurry at certain distances.
Crazy Kim knocked him down. What Mundine didn't tell anyone was that his "good eye" was closing.
"It was just such a silly thing that happened with my eye," he said.
"It's getting there but it's still not the same. It really gets me angry just thinking about it…"
Now that is frustration speaking. Because he knows it stands in the way of his enormous ambition.