If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.