It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

I don't care where people come from. It is not important to me. If you are good people will like you, if you're not, they won't. It is simple.

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.

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

The man wannabe actually...a wannabe. David Haye's a wannabe.

There is no money in this world that will make us fight.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.