Frank Bruno Quotes

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

We're not cameras, we're artists.

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

My head has got regrets, but I haven't.

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

I like going to the gym every day.

I still believe in marriage.

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I ain't got no right to judge someone.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

I am just working on staying alive.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.

People need to have compassion for others.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.