Quotes from George Groves

I want to be considered one of the greatest fighters ever.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

In any other sport an easier route to the final is your best route - but in this sport it isn't.

Who wants to watch the WBSS final without me in it?

There are various psychological advantages you can take into boxing match. One is getting your opponent to fight with emotion and anger because he hates you.

That's the reality of boxing - it can be over in a flash.

On fight night I feel alive and full of tingles. You feel your blood flow hot but that's how we like it. We're mammals, we're warm-blooded creatures.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.'

With Froch everyone was questioning me and I was trying to prove a point.

I was never going to be one to just go away quietly and get on with things in the shadows.

I've been over to Germany, it is nice to box.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.

There's always talk about going out on top, unfortunately for me that means going out on a loss but it's going out at the highest level. I'm happily satisfied and it makes a lot of sense to me.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

Carl Froch is a strong, seasoned world champion and there's no quit in him.

I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.

There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.

In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts I had finally fulfilled my childhood dream, and the experience was as great as I had always imagined it would be. It was without doubt the best moment of my career.

When I become world champion, what do I need? I need opponents, I need someone to pick a venue, negotiate a date, and I need a promoter.

Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.

If I didn't want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn't have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight.