Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Frank Bruno
People need to have compassion for others.
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.
Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
I ain't got no right to judge someone.
If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
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.
I am just working on staying alive.
I don't normally watch myself on the telly.
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.
I still believe in marriage.
If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.
I like going to the gym every day.
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.
I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.
I speak African. I can even speak Italian.
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.
There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
When you're a man you try and be macho.
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.
Sometimes your dreams come true.
My head has got regrets, but I haven't.
I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.
