Quotes from Dereck Chisora

If you don't have your gameplan right, as a big man against a little man, you are in trouble.

Trust me, everybody likes to come forward with me, but they all just tire out.

I prefer to not be soft.

I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on Friday with his pay and gave the rent money to my mum. He'd put aside money for food and stuff and he'd keep the rest. That's how Africans lived, but there was enough to go around.

I left Zimbabwe when I was 16.

Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don't mind.

Fighting behind closed doors is like going back to be an amateur, or your early days as a professional. Up and coming fighters can do it but for your bigger guys like Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and me, I don't think we can do that.

I'm actually a very nice guy.

If you could have had a fighter with David Price's body and my mind, you would have had the Great White Hope the United Kingdom has been waiting for for years. With my will in his body, we would have had this giant Scouser knocking everybody out.

I've won, I've failed - so many things have gone wrong for me. There's been ups and downs.

I will end the Klitschko reign and cause a massive upset that will be felt around the world.

Why would I want anyone to advertise on the soles of my boots? The only time you'll see the soles of my feet is when I'm dead.

Believe me, I'm more afraid of my mother than any opponent in the ring.

I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.

This is the boxing game. There is no ducking and diving.

Boxing is an entertainment, I have to entertain people.

I'm an entertainer.

Everyone else who has fought the Klitschko brothers has been scared.

When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it.

Loads of people wrote me off.

I'm always nervous before a fight, any fighter that says they're not is lying.

What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don't fear that is lying.