I got a bit down, depressed and fat, but I needed to be out of the game to realise I need boxing.

If I lose to DeLuca I will announce my retirement in the ring after.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

Boxers put themselves on the line, they put their lives at risk, so it's up to the boxers to make sure they are healthy and sharp because we are giving the public what they want to see.

I'm a born and bred Sheffield man and I just want the city to do well with sport.

Dominic Ingle has seen me probably from 9 years old coming through. He was watching from the outside.

Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.

I want bigger fights. Amir Khan doesn't want to listen to me. Why? It's getting boring.

I want to make a serious legacy.

Being able to adjust - to any fighter, no matter what pressure he can give me - I'm going to show I can do all that.

I'm going to show the world that I'm the best welterweight on the planet and I'm going to do it right before my people's eyes.

I'm going to get better and better. You never stop learning in this game.

It's a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I'm 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.

Everyone in boxing knows that I am a big guy.

I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.

I'm going to follow the greats and make history. The likes of Felix Trinidad, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao have all moved through the weights to prove they are greats at all weights.

The fans pay our wages and I want to give back to the fans. I have been telling them for ages that I want big fights and they haven't believed me. They don't know the politics that go on behind the scenes through no fault of my own.

2019, I'm coming for those big boys; I will go to welterweight.

I know I have a mandatory with Errol Spence. He's a very talented fighter but not really heard of in the U.K. or even America, but we all know he can fight.

I want the big money fights if I'm going to make 147 pounds.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself.

I am going to go after the big names in America and the fights all the fans want.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

Timing beats speed and I'm very strong at my weight.

I could do welterweight. For the right fight, I'll do welterweight. It would have to be a meaningful fight. A world title fight, or a big meaningful fight.

Losing in my home town of Sheffield, it upset me really badly.

Golovkin and Errol Spence are no dumplings, but even losing to those guys is hard to take.

Pressure makes me perform better.

I'm just laid-back and cool.

I went to America and beat Shawn Porter, a guy that was being called a 'mini Mike Tyson' and that most people were saying was going to take over from Floyd Mayweather. I went to his backyard and ripped his title off him.

I trust the team around me to guide my career in the right direction, I just do the fighting.

When you are the champion, you are there to be shot at. It doesn't bother me what people say.

But I am a big welterweight so I can see why people think that I would look to move up the weights.

Why would I fear Golovkin when I have stared death in the face?

People go on about weight. Mike Tyson wasn't the biggest heavyweight and he was an animal.

I love motocross and would love to have a go but I can't go anywhere near them in case I got injured.

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

I like to have a good cry at a sad film.

I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

I'm accurate and I can land on anyone's chin.

People are right to question what I've got left and how I am going to be after the injuries and defeats.

I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.

Even as a teenager, I wanted to move up the weights and win belts.

I've never been satisfied winning one world title.