I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school.

I lift weights. Then I put them down again.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous.

I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine.

I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.

I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

I want people to look at me as a four-time world champion, in two weight categories, as a down-to-earth man of the people, not the joke that I had become.

I want my kids to be proud of me.

We all have to grow up some time.

I like to think I know my boxing.

I can still remember the time when some City fans thought it would be a good idea if I bought the club. I don't know how much money they thought I had - but I certainly don't think we'd be enjoying the success that we are under Sheikh Mansour.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

We are very proud of our roots in Manchester. We like to back our own.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.

When I stepped up a division I can remember suffering the worst fatigue I had ever felt. I noticed it massively.

I can remember crying in the Kippax at Maine Road when City were relegated to the old First Division in 1996. Dropping out of the Premier League seemed like the worst thing imaginable - and what didn't help was the fact United were winning just about everything going at the same time.

Jose Mourinho is the Floyd Mayweather Jr of football management. You either love him or hate him.

Kostya Tszyu was the best payday of my career to that point, even though I thought it should have been better.

Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.

I've been asked by 'Big Brother,' 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!,' 'Strictly' and 'Dancing on Ice,' but it's not for me.

I'm very fortunate. I've looked after my money and I'm happy with where my career is at as a trainer and a promoter.

I've never been a red carpet hugger unless it is for charity.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want to be in this sport or not. For me, there was no doubt.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I think I fought a lot better fighters.

For all the success, I never acted any differently. I've always done the same things and I can honestly say I've not changed in the slightest. Sometimes that's the problem.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

My fallout with my family was heart-breaking.

Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too.

Fame has never been high on my agenda.