Better to quit or be stopped?

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

So, it would seem that Cotto did indeed quit against Tony on Saturday night.
My question is ..... is it better to call the fight yourself and quit or to be stopped either by KO or TKO?

If its early in the fight, go balls out. If its late and the hurt has come from an accumulation, its better to quite. I think the chances of being seriously hurt at that time, are just too high to play with. I think by that time a fighter has made up his mind that he has been defeated, so its completely understandable to me.

[Da Hammer]

Cotto would have been an idiot to continue. i rather be called a coward and live on than an idiot who didnt live to see another day