David Haye

The boxing public aren't interested in knowing me. They want to know The Hayemaker, the one who gives it big.

I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.

Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.

Fighting in Germany, Wladimir Klitschko makes so much money for everyone.

Money talks at the end of the day.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don't think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There's a difference between being a coward and being scared, or apprehensive. Different fighters have got different mentalities.

To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.

The Klitschkos don't care about being great fighters, whereas I do. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight.

I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

I am not interested in fighting against 50 wimps like the Klitschkos do.

Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.