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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

I don't have anything else to prove.

I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals
my mission is complete.

People know I was the last true champion.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I just want to complete my legacy.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face ... No problem.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

You can just fight one man at a time.

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.

I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.

When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.