Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.