As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

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