I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional prize fighter and let my fists do the talking only inside the ring. I don't want to comment on Chisora's psychological issues.
From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.
Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!
The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.
That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.
Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.
Defeat will help you. I've been there and done that. I shook it off and came back stronger. It's nothing to be scared about.
Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.
When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.
Obsession is love in an extreme shape.
You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.
I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.
All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it.
It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.
When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.
Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.
I'm boring but effective.
I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought.
The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.
My father told and taught me that the word, can hit harder than the fist.
It's such a gift in my life to be able to compete - to have the health.
It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.
You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.
