Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.