In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

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.

Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.

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.

I don't have anything else to prove.