I'm a showman.

Although boxing is a sport, it's still entertainment. You've still got the fear, press conferences, the stare-downs. It's all an act in some ways. My whole life I've been doing it. I love this side of boxing - as much as the actual fight.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don't think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There's a difference between being a coward and being scared, or apprehensive. Different fighters have got different mentalities.

I eat tall, chinny, Eastern European heavyweights for breakfast.

I have the heart of lion.

Nobody will hold it against him if he cancels the fight with Dereck Chisora - the public aren't interested in that fight; nobody knows who he is. It is pretty sad but shows the mindset of Wladimir Klitschko and why he will go down in history as a heavyweight who just fought the worst possible people out there.

Fight fans just want to see the best against the best - if only it was that simple.

I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

To beat Wladimir Klitschko, I have to be better than I've ever been.

Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward. Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali. You get these rivalries in boxing - not that often, so when you do get them, why do you want to sanitise it?

My son's dream is to win Wimbledon - I'd love that.

I love watching reruns of 'Sex And The City.'

In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.

I spent more than £150,000 on a limited-edition Mercedes SL.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

I definitely believe if you give me any part of your chin, you are going to sleep.

Fury said he would rather fight his cousin than me.

Even though he's a moron, I supported Tyson Fury.

Fighting in Germany, Wladimir Klitschko makes so much money for everyone.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

Mark de Mori is a solid operator.

You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else like them but fight someone who has might won an Olympics before, been a world champion, and is just coming back to fight some kids, I think is insane.