You'll never see me go into a fight and struggle to get up for it. I understand first and foremost what's at stake.
— Tony Bellew
In the build-up to a fight, I am scared, and I do worry about myself. But once I step into that arena, that worry has gone. A switch gets flicked, and I want to do damage. All I care about is doing damage as fast as possible.
Do I beat a fully fledged, fully fit Tyson Fury? Probably not. But do I beat a Tyson Fury that's been out of the ring for two years? Yes.
The Isaac Chilemba fight was draining.
No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.
The one place in the world where I can feel like I'm completely in control, at home, is in a ring.
At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.
People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.
I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
I've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.
Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.
I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.
I can sell a fight, make no mistake.
I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.
Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.
I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.
I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.
Every single time I step into a ring, the same thing is on the line. Take away belts, take away money, take away glamour and fame. Ultimately, I'm fighting for one thing, and that's my life.
When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.
What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.
That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.
I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.
I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.
I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.
I had a headache for four days after the first Haye fight. I didn't tell anyone, I just went to bed and thought it would go. But for four days it remained. Then I got my brain scan before the second fight, and I was worried when I went for it.
I love the sound of a Tyson Fury fight.
I like hurting people.
Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.
This World Boxing Super Series has been a breath of fresh air.
I've earned every single thing that I've got.
Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.
Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.
David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.
Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.
Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.
Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.
I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone - that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I'm happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.
I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I'm something I'm not. I'll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.
I love 'Rambo.'
As a heavyweight, I've not missed dieting. Those days where you're sore or tired, it makes me feel happy to know I can eat a bar of chocolate.
I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.
I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.
When I'm training, I don't think about anything else.
I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.
I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.
When I say something, I mean it.
I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.
Anthony Joshua is a friend of mine, and I've got a lot of time for him... I would never put his name out there.
Usyk is less of a puncher than Lomachenko but comes with just as high a work rate, so Usyk has to take some to give some to be exciting, whereas Lomachenko has genuine power, and he can stop fighters with that power.
