I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?'

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.