Quotes from Carl Froch

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

I did it the hard way, I fought everyone I could and I would not have it any other way.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.

What I will say though is that I've got quite a big back, from doing pull-ups, and that will make your punches more solid. But in terms of the hardness of your punch, it's about timing and speed.

I've won titles at home, I've won them abroad, I've defended titles abroad and lost them, and gone on to dominate my next opponent to win them back.

Boxing is a hurt game if you can't be at your best, can't be 100 per cent mentally and physically switched on to performing, to win titles, defend titles, defend yourself in the correct fashion, then I don't think you should fight.

Apparently, we've been to the moon in 1969, 1970. We've been there six times, I don't believe a word of it. Some people do.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Your body releases a natural endorphin when you're fighting. You don't feel pain.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

It's not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it's never too late.

I don't feel any remorse or guilt after a fight. I can sympathise with an opponent who is getting a beating, but if it is the choice between him and me, it's not gonna be me.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

I've kept improving in many ways. Boxers evolve with experience.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he's stepping out of his league it's even worse.

You manage your injuries if you're serious about fighting.

I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

People can look at my style and my faults, point out all the things I didn't do as well as other fighters but I was never knocked out or stopped.