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" I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare. "

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" A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing. "

" Let's make this clear: I do not hate anybody. "

" If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it? "

" Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1. "

" I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name. "

" There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me. "

" I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard. "

" Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes. "

" Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights. "

" I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in. "

" My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God. "

" I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. "

" I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I'm not going to be involved in good fights, then what's the point being a boxer? "

" For me, it's about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That's what I am, and that's what I intend to do. "

" I'm like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money. "

" Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion. "

" What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it? "

" My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She's a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone's in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That's my opinion. "

" Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten. "

" All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero. "

" I'm looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don't think Wladimir is going to take the fight. "

Looking Forward

" Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down. "

" There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter. "

" I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary. "

" I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?' "

" Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world. "

" They are the three venues I wanted to box in - I wasn't really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden. "

" I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight. "

" I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school. "

" I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama. "