Chris Eubank Jr.

“Everyone's entitled to their opinion about my father. Some people think he's a distraction and takes some of my shine away, but, for me, that's not the case.”

“I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.”

“If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.”

“You learn from every bout.”

“I'm going to take whatever route I can take to win a world title.”

“People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.”

“The only time I've ever been knocked out in my entire life was in a rugby game when I was about 13. I used to play on the wing. The opposing winger has the ball in his hand and he's running full speed at me. I go down to tackle him and he jumps up and his knee hits my temple.”

“There shouldn't be any true malice towards your opponent.”

“I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.”

“It's the referee's job to stop the fight. I'm in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.”

“No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.”

“I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'”

“That's the ultimate goal for any fighter, to fight in those big casinos, on that strip in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, New York - all those iconic venues.”

“I am an entertainer.”

“Saunders didn't beat me. I wasn't battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much because it was my first 12-round fight.”

“The corner is there to help you clean your cuts up and put your Vaseline on, not to throw in the towel.”

“I don't see a holiday as a time to break from boxing - it never stops.”

“If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.”

“You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.”

“I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.”