Chris Eubank Sr.

The Watson fight was the worst beating I ever took in a ring, but I couldn't quit.

I am a sensitive, emotionally conditioned human being, and I have suffered racist abuse.

Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.

I've became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.

There's a correct way to succeed. The incorrect way is to do things incorrectly.

A lot of people think my head is flat.

My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

I've prospered because of my father. I know I'll never be his equal, but I've prospered because I've honoured my parents.

I failed my HGV licence three times.

I was a speed freak once. I had an Aston Martin when I first made it big and I used to take it to its limits. I once drove from Lewes to London in 45 minutes - mad.

I'm a gentle, considerate, giving man.

I've tasted the bitter beatings.

The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.

I am not a meathead.

I was sensitive, I was emotionally intelligent.

Fortunately, I was technically skilled, so I didn't have to bludgeon people, I didn't have to batter them.

In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.

To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

It's the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I've endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

You play football, rugby, tennis. You do not play boxing. When a sportsperson is in a game, when it gets too much, you quit. But in boxing you can't quit. You have to be taken out.