It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.
At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I'd be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.
In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.
The world title in a second weight division and a win in America is just the icing on the cake of my career.
When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.
I've fought in Copenhagen before, and it's not the most hostile place in the world.
I am not an aggressive person. I am a disciplined, chilled, and relaxed guy.
On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.
When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.
To win the four major title belts, to be the unbeaten champion and 10 years a champion - it's amazing. I'm so proud.
Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.
I definitely was a big puncher early on in my career, and I used to load up with my left hand. Then, towards the end of my career, I had hand problems and needed injections in my hands for the pain.
There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.
There'll never be another Muhammad Ali. He was a superstar. And although he has gone, his legacy will live on for what he has done for sport and humanity.
There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.
I don't really watch much boxing.
There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.
I want to prove that I'm not just the best super middleweight in the world but the best pound-for-pound.
You ask all the super-middleweights: Who is the best fighter in Britain? If I came back, it would be me.
It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer.
