I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.

I'm proud to be one of only a few fighters in history to retire undefeated.

You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

Test match cricket - it's the most boring thing to watch. How they call themselves sportsmen I'll never know.

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

You have to try things in life.

I'm a boxer, and every fight could be my last. You just have to remember Michael Watson to know what boxing can do to you.

You think that after becoming world champion, you're going to be a massive superstar with lots of lucrative bouts against great fighters, but that never materialised for me.

When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.

Why am I not a household name in Britain? Why have I not got the recognition I deserve after so long? I think the fact that none of my fights are seen on terrestrial television is significant but, other than that, I don't exactly know. I really don't.

I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.

Promoting is a no-no - that's hard work. Training is a full-time job, but I don't have time to do that full-time. But managing is something I'll be good at.

If you know you're just fighting for the money and you're not fighting for the championship, you're going to lose, so I thought, 'It's time for me to quit.'

I remember every defeat I suffered as an amateur. They were rare enough to be burned into my brain, and that's why I can't bear the thought of losing.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

I appreciate what I've achieved, and nearly all of that is because of my dad. He pushed me to train harder than I would have done if he wasn't there to discipline me.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

Fighters never realise when it is time to walk away. They can't leave the buzz and adoration that surrounds being champion.

I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.

I do like to travel.

I try to work out about four or five times a week. I'll do a little bit of cardio, half hour on the punchbag, or just go for a jog.

Ideally, it would be nice if you could earn enough money to kick on from boxing and use the finances to start a business. Realistically, that doesn't happen.

Boxing's in my blood, so I'll always stay involved in that, and I'll probably do a bit of TV work as well, commentary and that.