Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.
Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.
If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
I ain't got no right to judge someone.
I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.
When you're a man you try and be macho.
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
I like going to the gym every day.
I am just working on staying alive.
If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
My head has got regrets, but I haven't.
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Sometimes your dreams come true.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.
I speak African. I can even speak Italian.
