Quotes from Chris Eubank Sr.

I'm a gentle, considerate, giving man.

I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.

In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.

My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask of my children. One should conduct themselves in the correct manner, respect one's elders and do the right thing.

If you don't produce the goods, you're very quickly forgotten.

I'm a good man and a bad fighter... I've got the gladiator in me.

Yes, I have spent. I have lived and had accidents. It's all part of life's wonderful experience.

Boxing? She's like a woman. If you've never wooed her, never won her, you always look back wondering what would have happened had you had her. If you caught her and had a long relationship, you don't really look back. Do I miss her? No, because I've had her, I've moved on.

When someone has speed they throw four punches to your one, you cannot beat them.

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.

A lot of people think my head is flat.

I've prospered because of my father. I know I'll never be his equal, but I've prospered because I've honoured my parents.

The Watson fight was the worst beating I ever took in a ring, but I couldn't quit.

Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.

Fear is what activates your tools; your jab, your movement, your speed, your ability to absorb punishment.

I am tough. I am relentless.

The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.

I want to enjoy the magic of the instrument which is my body.

I was sensitive, I was emotionally intelligent.

Fear gives you your intensity, it gives you your game.

I've became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.

I went to a foreign land, New York City in 1982 and had no money, no respect in the gym. Everyone thinks you're full of it. The remit in those days was break his heart, get him out of the gym.

Fighters who speak disparagingly about fighters from years gone by do us all a disservice. It is treacherous.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.