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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.
Tony Bellew
What my family's been through I can't even put into words. We're very close.
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 can't and won't be defeated at Goodison Park, the greatest stadium in the world.
I'm after megafights, and me fighting Haye equals megafight.
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.
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 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 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'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.
At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.
People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.
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 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.
You will all laugh and say I wouldn't have a chance, but I would knock Andre Ward out - or I will outbox him. He is a pound-for-pound great, but I can match him on the inside, and he has never fought anyone who could do that.
I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.
Normal athletes couldn't do what Premier League football players can do.
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'm from the street. We all know that.
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.
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.
Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.
I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.
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've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.
I love 'Rambo.'
I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
I just idolise Nigel Benn, the things he said, how ferocious he was, how intimidating he was - I just loved watching him. As I do the old Mike Tyson, the '89 Mike Tyson. The Tyson who walked to the ring with a white towel on and looked ferocious. He frightened me just watching him.
I say some silly things now and again.
I've earned every single thing that I've got.
My goal first and foremost when I walk into that boxing ring is to get home safe to my missus and three children, because they're all in life that need me, and they really do need me.
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.
I've achieved all my dreams.
Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.
David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.
Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.
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.
That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
The speed and timing go with age.
Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.
Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.
I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.
My dad, my missus, my sons, I do it all for them.
I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.
People don't drop me with shots on the temple.
I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.
I'm not a perfect person - far from it.
I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.
You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.
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