I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.

People know I was the last true champion.

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

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 danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

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