Carl Froch

I absolutely love boxing. I live and breathe it.

As tired as I am, I can always go another round, and I feel the other guy can't.

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

I believe my grandma is watching over me and I draw strength from that.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

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

I've even fought with a broken hand, against Brian Magee.

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 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.

Boxing is a hurt game if you can't be at your best, can't be 100 per cent mentally and physically switched on to performing, to win titles, defend titles, defend yourself in the correct fashion, then I don't think you should fight.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.

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.

While I can fight, I will fight. When I can't walk straight or my hands are knackered, then you've got to turn it in.

People can look at my style and my faults, point out all the things I didn't do as well as other fighters but I was never knocked out or stopped.

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

I don't feel any remorse or guilt after a fight. I can sympathise with an opponent who is getting a beating, but if it is the choice between him and me, it's not gonna be me.

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

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

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.

Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.

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

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

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a mano. One against one. It's driven by fear and your need to conquer it.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he's in the ring, you can see he's scared to death.

I'm quite a ruthless, cold-hearted bastard. I always have been.

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.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I've had a Japanese judge, a Mexican judge in the past, and they have done some ridiculous scoring.

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.

It's not ideal; I don't want to get a bad decision. If I win the fight, I expect to get my hand raised at the end of it. But, if people see it's a bad decision, it gets sorted out. You get another shot, or you fight someone else at the top level.

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.

I'm a very proud warrior and with that mentality comes great fights: especially when I'm in with opponents that mean business.

I'm involved in fight of the year nearly every time I fight because I put it all on the line. I don't look to keep out of the way and nick a decision.

It's not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it's never too late.

I don't think there is anything more proud or glorious than standing in the arena as a fighter - that you've done it in on your own. That's why I love fighting.

Your body releases a natural endorphin when you're fighting. You don't feel pain.

A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He's not tough enough.

I had a lot of rematches in the amateurs. You don't always know what an opponent's going to do. I do find that I beat them more easily second time around.

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.

I always like to get that finishing blow and satisfy the crowd.

You are either genetically tough or you're not.

There's weaknesses in every fighter.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

You are never going to top boxing at Wembley stadium.

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

I watched Sly Stallone and the 'Rocky' movies over and over again. They were fantastic.