Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

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.

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.

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.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

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.