I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.
Tony Bellew
Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.
Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
You'll never see me go into a fight and struggle to get up for it. I understand first and foremost what's at stake.
Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.
Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.
Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
I've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.
People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.
No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.
I just want to be left alone.
Style makes fights; I've always said it.
What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.
I'm after megafights, and me fighting Haye equals megafight.
I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
I love 'Rambo.'
Especially with someone like me, my family know how much I push myself to the absolute limit.
At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.
I've had a fantastic career.
I had a headache for four days after the first Haye fight. I didn't tell anyone, I just went to bed and thought it would go. But for four days it remained. Then I got my brain scan before the second fight, and I was worried when I went for it.
When I'm training, I don't think about anything else.
As a heavyweight, I've not missed dieting. Those days where you're sore or tired, it makes me feel happy to know I can eat a bar of chocolate.
I fear no man. I really don't.
The Isaac Chilemba fight was draining.
I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.
I say some silly things now and again.
Usyk is less of a puncher than Lomachenko but comes with just as high a work rate, so Usyk has to take some to give some to be exciting, whereas Lomachenko has genuine power, and he can stop fighters with that power.
I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He's a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.
Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.
I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.
I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.
I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.
I like hurting people.
I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
I've made some bad mistakes in life.
I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone - that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I'm happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.
I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I'm something I'm not. I'll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.
Do I beat a fully fledged, fully fit Tyson Fury? Probably not. But do I beat a Tyson Fury that's been out of the ring for two years? Yes.
I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.
David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.
Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.
I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.
I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.
I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.
On May 29 2016, my wildest dreams came true. I became the WBC cruiserweight champion of the world at Goodison Park. The dream location, the dream title, the dream ending, a third-round knockout of Iunga Makabu.
This World Boxing Super Series has been a breath of fresh air.
I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.
Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.
