I have gone from training by myself to having a team of professional people that have been building athletes for years.

People say they start from the bottom. If you want to see someone who's started from the bottom, go and look at my career. My first 10 fights, I think I paid for them myself. I've fought three times in one month.

I need to know what I'm doing. I've got my own career. I'm not waiting.

I'm 30. I'm about to hit my prime now. I need to act and keep building.

To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.

It wasn't until I had a platform and an opportunity like 'Being the Elite' to show people that I'm a real human being. Show people I have a personality. I think that's helped more than anything in my career.

What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

I used to play music all night and sleep during the day. I was very career-minded. The music dominated everything and anything that interfered with that, I put a stop to it.