Look what the Rumble in the Jungle did for Zaire. No one had ever heard of Zaire until then. After Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman for the title, no one forgets it.

People say, 'Where do you get your strength from?' Well, where does an ape get his strength from? They are 20 times stronger than humans, and they don't rely on a meat-based diet. They eat plants all day long. It's a myth that you need meat for strength.

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.

There are no shortcut to losing weight. Just hard work and dedication, hard work and dedication.

There are probably one million dudes in America called Kevin Johnson, and beating one of them doesn't make you an all-time great heavyweight.

I have always maintained you should be able to bench press and deadlift at least twice your body weight.

I've had a lot of good nights, and ideally, I don't want to be remembered for a bad night.

I want to fight who the fans who want me to fight.

I would fight till I'm dead. This is why I am here. I am put on Earth to fight. I feel it deep in my waters.

If you ever need a good steak, Stringfellows is the place to go in London.

There is no room for sentiment in a boxing ring.

It's hard to judge somebody before or after a fight. Adrenaline is flowing, and you're hyped up.

I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.

Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.

It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.

I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

It's the warm-up in the changing room when I switch on. I don't even think about the fight until then. Some fighters are bouncing about the walls, but I switch off. Then it's like someone flicks a switch in me.

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

I've been in the ring with the Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I've tasted his power, and he's tasted mine.

If I didn't have a great right hook, the bigger, heavier fighters would grind me down and smother me.

I've had injuries before. They are just obstacles to overcome.

Every boxer needs to be able to punch, but none more than me, and that's because I'm not that skilful, and I'm one of the smallest heavyweights you'll ever see.

That's what I actually like about boxing: no matter how well you do, you can still have a normal life.

It's always my plan to knock out my opponents.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

Money talks at the end of the day.

I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

Everybody wants me to finally close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

The Klitschkos don't care about being great fighters, whereas I do. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight.

The Hayemaker is a dangerous fellow who, when the bell rings, is on a seek and destroy mission, by any means necessary. No playing around. No comedy. It's just straight-up business.

Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it's just the three of you in there: the referee, your opponent, and you. You're in a very lonely moment then. But, strangely, that's when I feel most comfortable. The ring becomes my office, and I go to work.

It would be nice to crack America, but I need the opponent to do that. If Eddie Chambers is the best American heavyweight they can dig up, it's a very sad state of affairs.

Maybe Tony Bellew is my Benn-Eubank.

I've got three Bentleys, a couple of Mercs, and two Range Rovers.

I'm too fast, too sexy, and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

Whenever the Klitschkos pick opponents who punch back, things go pear-shaped for them.

When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.

Only time will tell whether the Klitschkos need me more than I need them. They won't believe that. But it depends what they want out of boxing. If they want guaranteed easy victories, then they can do what they've always done, but if they want a tough challenge, you'd think they would want to beat down my door.

My punching power passes any other heavyweight.

Anything's possible if you set your heart on something, no matter how big and how crazy it seems.

A lot of people say, 'OK, I'm overweight, so I'm not going to eat any food; I'm only going to have an apple a day,' but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you've got to do is increase your metabolism.

Once I have beaten Mormeck, I don't feel there'll be anything left to prove. After winning the world title, I will be recognised as the No. 1 cruiserweight in the world.

I'd like to be one of the ones who got out on his own terms.

I've got no desire to fight Dereck Chisora inside the ring or outside the ring.

It makes absolutely no sense for me to turn down a fight I desperately want.

The whole idea behind going ahead with this Chisora fight was that a victory may then lead to a fight with Vitali Klitschko.

I was born with a black eye. When they pulled me out with the forceps, they clamped them round my face, so I had a big bruise from that.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.