It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

The true object of human life is play.

Marriage is not a reform school.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.