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“I don't drink in public. I don't swear on TV. All I want is for people to say Chris Eubank is an all-right guy.”
“I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.”
“I have always been the sort of person to give advice to those coming up behind me and I will continue to. It's what I do, what I am.”
“There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed free speech. If you speak freely, you are then deemed as I was, to be a subversive.”
“Let me tell you, the jodhpur in the world of fashion is a formidable adversary to the trouser. It gives automatic swagger to anyone who wears them.”
“I am tough. I am relentless.”
“I am a strong father.”
“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.”
“If you are learning how to box, any type of support will make you weak. Any type of support is counterproductive.”
“Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.”
“Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.”
“When I say my family suffered for my anti-war protesting, one of the many fallouts was having to send my two sons to America because I couldn't keep control of them when the divorce happened... there are consequences for your actions.”
“Boxing? She's like a woman. If you've never wooed her, never won her, you always look back wondering what would have happened had you had her. If you caught her and had a long relationship, you don't really look back. Do I miss her? No, because I've had her, I've moved on.”
“You see, there are many types of wealth and money is only one of them. I have different wealths, like the wealth of my health.”
“Boxing is the more dangerous activity from the rugby player's and the general public's point of view, but to me rugby is far more dangerous so I would prefer my sons to box. I love my children too much and do not want to watch them getting hurt. This is in no way intended as a criticism of rugby, which I consider to be a fantastic sport.”
“Fear gives you your intensity, it gives you your game.”
“I'm a good man and a bad fighter... I've got the gladiator in me.”
“I failed my HGV licence three times.”
“A lot of people think my head is flat.”
“I am benevolent.”