I Was Psychologically Sick For 3 Days Afterwards.

He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.

When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

In Soviet times the border was closed so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.

My height is an advantage, if I want to use it.

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.