Tony Bellew
I just want to be left alone.Collection: Alone
When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.Collection: Teacher
I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.
I say some silly things now and again.
I'm not a perfect person - far from it.
I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.
I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
The speed and timing go with age.
Style makes fights; I've always said it.
You will all laugh and say I wouldn't have a chance, but I would knock Andre Ward out - or I will outbox him. He is a pound-for-pound great, but I can match him on the inside, and he has never fought anyone who could do that.
I want to punch everything and fight the world.
Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood - I certainly don't understand women.
I defy anyone in the world to trade with me.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
What my family's been through I can't even put into words. We're very close.
I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.
My legacy is secure.
When it's all said and done, Linares is an exceptional fighter.
My dream is to fight at Goodison Park. Forget Wembley, or Vegas, I just want to fight at Goodison Park. It's been a dream ever since I was a child; no one's ever done it.
My dad, my missus, my sons, I do it all for them.
I am the best cruiserweight in the world.
You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.
I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.
People don't drop me with shots on the temple.
As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.
I would never talking about hating a fighter. I don't hate no one.
I fear no man. I really don't.
I've made some bad mistakes in life.
I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.
I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.
I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.
I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
Usyk could beat me - he's beaten better than me, so he could beat me - but I just don't think he will, and I will find a way.
When I go into a boxing ring, I'm willing to die.
Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.
Normal athletes couldn't do what Premier League football players can do.
I just idolise Nigel Benn, the things he said, how ferocious he was, how intimidating he was - I just loved watching him. As I do the old Mike Tyson, the '89 Mike Tyson. The Tyson who walked to the ring with a white towel on and looked ferocious. He frightened me just watching him.
I love looking back at the older fights; they don't make them like they used to. Just watching Tommy Hearns, the technique in his punching, the brilliance and the combinations from the likes of Ray Leonard and 'Sugar' Ray Robinson.
I'm from the street. We all know that.
I've achieved all my dreams.
There will be no more fighting from me. The only things you will see me doing from here on in is trying to act sensible and behave myself.
I've had a fantastic career.
On May 29 2016, my wildest dreams came true. I became the WBC cruiserweight champion of the world at Goodison Park. The dream location, the dream title, the dream ending, a third-round knockout of Iunga Makabu.
I'm after megafights, and me fighting Haye equals megafight.
Especially with someone like me, my family know how much I push myself to the absolute limit.
My goal first and foremost when I walk into that boxing ring is to get home safe to my missus and three children, because they're all in life that need me, and they really do need me.
Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.
I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He's a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.
Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.