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The only thing I miss is the actual fight night and the feeling of winning. I can say this with my hand on my heart, there is no greater feeling than standing victorious in the ring or in the case of my last fight, a stadium.

I've been in the ring. I've fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I did it the hard way, I fought everyone I could and I would not have it any other way.

I'm not in this for superstardom. I do it purely for the love of the sport. I just love fighting.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.

You don't want to be going into any fight thinking you've got to get a knockout, or force a stoppage, because it takes you out of your gameplan.

I don't want to be the country's best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.

The fans want to see a conclusive finish. It's quite a brutal, barbaric sport and the people who watch it want to see someone out. That's what I do for a living.

You are either genetically tough or you're not.

I'd love to box in Las Vegas - it's the fight capital in the world.

I would have loved to have fought 15-rounders, because I always come on strong at the end.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

I've always been into sport, I watch all sport - I love golf, tennis, football and to me to box and have people in the arena cheering me on, I'll always miss that.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

My final fight was called 'Unfinished Business' - and I finished it.

I've won titles at home, I've won them abroad, I've defended titles abroad and lost them, and gone on to dominate my next opponent to win them back.

I don't think I'll be fighting when I'm 40.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.