[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. . . . I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.
The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.
But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.