Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

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.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

You can't love nature with a gun

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.