Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

This is the forest primeval.

I try to eat whatever I want. I don't like putting myself on a diet, but I try to eat organic, healthy, and lean with lots of green vegetables.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

Love is an interesting thing.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.