There was many who had some doubts over me regarding my position in this sport, but I've always believed in myself and that's the way it's always been.

Once I realised what boxing was, I understood - this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn't have the same spice.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.

I was comfortable as a kid growing up. I had everything I needed.

I look up to my father, he's done what he's done, and I want to emulate his achievements and become as successful as he was. But I have to prove myself to the boxing community and to myself - that's the most important thing.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion about my father. Some people think he's a distraction and takes some of my shine away, but, for me, that's not the case.

There's only a few people in the country who have as much experience on the boxing scene as my father, especially at world level.

There is nothing better to do than to represent your country.

Saunders didn't beat me. I wasn't battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much because it was my first 12-round fight.

It doesn't matter how scary someone may seem - they have two legs, two arms and a heartbeat just like me. There's no reason why I wouldn't want to fight anybody.

So many fighters who fight Golovkin have lost before they've entered the ring.

No man is unbeatable.

Any fighter worth his salt wants to be the best and to be the best you have to fight the best.

I don't see a holiday as a time to break from boxing - it never stops.

Vegas is a wonderful place and there are a lot of things going on over there, it's a great place to have some fun, but it is also one of the best places in the world to train and to box.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

Having the Eubank name in England brings lots of pressure.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

When I'm fighting it's just search and destroy.

In the ring I'm a different animal.

I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you make mistakes. It's a mental game, it's a chess match, you've got to think, you've got to strategise and make tactical decisions.