A biography for Nigel Bennhasn’t been written yet.
“Look at my family. I can't ask for more.”
“I was a young, messed-up kid who didn't mature until he became a Christian. That was in 2008 - the rest of my life, I'd been living a lie.”
“Conor, because he lived with me, he knows the mistakes I made and the hurt I brought on the family.”
“I don't want to be someone who asks 'what if?'”
“I've had a great career; they've put me in the Hall of Fame, and the WBC voted me the best super-middleweight with Joe Calzaghe, yet all I wanted was Southern Area champion. Maybe a shot at the British title.”
“How can I not look back and thank God for having Chris Eubank? I am so grateful he was there.”
“I worked for Satan most of my life and then one day I looked at myself I realised the harm that my lifestyle was doing.”
“We lived in Miami, L.A., in Barbados, Jamaica and Hawaii. You can put them all together and they don't add up to Australia, I absolutely love Australia - I feel at home.”
“I think that's what everyone really wants, peace in their life.”
“I couldn't box. Have a fight? I'd have it! Box? Forget it, I'd just have a war.”
“The kind of life I led really affected my family.”
“I learned about fighting from taking on the National Front skinheads outside Ilford Town Hall in the 70s - they were big men and we were 14 or 15-year-old boys.”
“Serving other people - it's in another league.”
“Nobody believed me when I said I'd beat Gerald McClellan.”
“Wilder has only got a puncher's chance. He can't outbox Fury, Fury is like a magician when it comes to movement. He holds Wilder's card, he can see his punches coming.”
“In everything I did, I wanted to go out on my badge.”
“The life I had in boxing was death.”
“I remember coming second in a cross-country run and this sergeant major ripped in to me, saying 'you knacker, you waster - you should be second to no one.' That really got to me.”
“Be second to no one - that was my rule.”
“I found peace through God but not until I had driven myself to the edge.”