I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

I'm a regular guy, got the same friends. I live in the same area of south Wales. That's who I am. I'm just a normal guy. I just fight.

I've been through the routine so many times that I genuinely don't even think about a big fight very much beforehand.

My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.

I swore to myself that I was never going to lose again, and that's what drives me still. More than money, more than titles, more than fame, it's the desire not to be defeated.

The perfect fighter has never been born and never will be.

I'm actually thinking about acting lessons. If somebody says to me, 'You can be in the movies,' I'd be pretty happy.

Enzo, my dad, supports Juventus, so that's my team and, obviously, Italy, who I've been fortunate enough to see win two World Cups.

From 13 years old, I was treated like a professional.

I think we have a normal father-and-son relationship. But like any other relationship, we have our differences. But we always seem to work out our differences. Believe it or not, our personalities are similar. We're both fiery and passionate.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.

I've never wanted fame. I've only ever wanted recognition.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I'd be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.

In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.

The world title in a second weight division and a win in America is just the icing on the cake of my career.

When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.

I've fought in Copenhagen before, and it's not the most hostile place in the world.

I am not an aggressive person. I am a disciplined, chilled, and relaxed guy.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.

To win the four major title belts, to be the unbeaten champion and 10 years a champion - it's amazing. I'm so proud.

Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.

There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I don't really watch much boxing.

There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.

I want to prove that I'm not just the best super middleweight in the world but the best pound-for-pound.

You ask all the super-middleweights: Who is the best fighter in Britain? If I came back, it would be me.

It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer.

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

In order to make it in this league, period, you have to be able to tune out some things and believe in yourself and go play.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

It always gets you going when you get hit for the first time. It reminds you that you play football.

There's always that training camp feeling that comes back to you when you're getting ready to go.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

I'm never going to question myself or question the guys around me. We're just going to look at each other and we're going to look in the mirror and I'm going to tell myself and everybody that we have to get better, I have to get better.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

In this league, there's a lot of times when you're going to have guys open, and it's going to be all good and the fact that you're off a tick might not matter. But when it really matters, you're going to need to be right on it. And I think the more reps you get, the more likely chance you have to feel comfortable in those times of high stress.

People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.

I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.

I think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out there, rely on the fact that they have ability. And as a quarterback, you have to go out there and just go through your reads.