To be exceptional you have to be alone, that's the life of a warrior.

I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about scoring points, with grace.

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.

Fighters who speak disparagingly about fighters from years gone by do us all a disservice. It is treacherous.

However controversial Mayweather may be, he doesn't bring down the name of boxing. The fast cars, the jets and the money causes controversy but that does not bring the game down.

When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.

The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.

Everything controversial is good for boxing.

The only thing I have to do in this life is stay black and die. No one can force me to do anything.

The reason why I'm such a successful pugilist is that no one knows my limitations better than me. I am quite good, but I am not the best in the world. But I am one of the best and I'm quite content with that.

I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.

I'm a good man and a bad fighter... I've got the gladiator in me.

If you don't produce the goods, you're very quickly forgotten.

You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.

What can you say to someone like me? When you've got 19 world championship wins, it's almost like you're cursed because you're too good.

You see, there are many types of wealth and money is only one of them. I have different wealths, like the wealth of my health.

Yes, I have spent. I have lived and had accidents. It's all part of life's wonderful experience.

Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.

Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.

I think a great deal of my son, I love my son. The things I do are unthinkable. I do them because he even though he can't see the pain on my side, I still give and give for what? So he can have a better future.

The harshness of my upbringing did not affect me in the negative. But it has affected many people in the negative.

I tell my children, look at what your father did, you can do anything you want.