If he goes down, he is to get up, and continue to fight, until I finish the process.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

My father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist.

I don't like to get hit, who likes it? I probably wouldn't do this sport if I was getting hit that much.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.