After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

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

Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ‘Lennox should react, not think’. But that’s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

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

If you’ve got physical weaknesses, you’ll lose. Nobody who gets cut easily can be a champion, however strong and talented he is. Boxers are trained to see and exploit their opponents’ weaknesses, they hit you on your wounds. Only the strongest survive in this sport.

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