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.

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.

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.

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the states. Or also have states financing. Everything's pretty small.

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.