I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

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

As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasn’t just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldn’t have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. There’s not enough respect in our business.