Quotes from Callum Smith

If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.

Badou Jack is a puncher, but so am I.

The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.

I had a slow couple of years and people forgot about me.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

I don't know if I will ever be satisfied but I will keep going until hopefully I am.

We do need maybe younger or more experienced judges but where you can get them I don't know. It's like in football, who would want to be a football referee? You'd just get criticism all the time.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

I was obsessed with the Turtles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There's Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and my dad used to call me Callemundo, saying you're the fifth turtle.

Number one is somewhere I always believed I would be.

Daniel Jacobs is a big name over in America, which is somewhere obviously I want to get my name bigger, so there are potential big fights out there for me.

No. 1 in the world is the ultimate goal for me.

Canelo is a special fighter.

Style-wise, I'm not ideal to fight, but I'm not taking anything away from 'Canelo' Alvarez, he's a special fighter and he's one of the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world for a reason.

Hassan N'Dam is a very good fighter, he's very experienced and been around a long time. He's got good footwork, very good movement.

My mum was always saying when we were kids: 'If you don't do you homework you're not going to the gym.' She was always a big believer in having something to fall back on.

I want the big fights, I want the big names, fights that will motivate me.

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

I have my own goals, standards and have my own pressure.

If I can't get a unification fight, then there's other tops names, even though they haven't got a world title, ie Golovkins, stuff like that.

I would like to unify and test myself against other champions.

I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.