Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

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.

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.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Seek respect not attention.

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.