I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.

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

I'm boring but effective.

I've been doing this 26 years and have a lot of knowledge which will help me in the ring.

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

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