David Haye quotes:

In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.

I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back.

They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an afterthought in a country most famous for producing chocolate.

They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.

Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.

I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be about to have sex with a beautiful girl and I'll say, 'Sorry darling, I'm fighting in a few weeks.' That's control, bro, when you're turning down a hot chick in your subconscious.

People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.

I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.

I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.

When you're training you go to the gym when it's dark, you leave when it's dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you.

He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

The Klit brothers should first fight each other, and the winner should fight me.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.

[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.

It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.

Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

If someone burgles your house, and you knock them out, are you gonna apologize for knocking them out? No you're not, you're gonna stomp on their head, just like any other normal person would.

You forget why you're fighting - you can lose sight of why you're doing it all.

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me.

I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.

The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.

One of my favourite fighters was Lennox Lewis - he got out at number one. A fight with the winner of the Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua fight would put me at number one.

I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!

He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.

Enzo get up you're making me look bad.

I don't believe you've seen the best of The Hayemaker yet. I want to leave on the top of the game. Recognised as the best heavyweight fighter on the planet, then I can hang the gloves back up in peace.

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did.

You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

If there was a new Chris Eubank coming through, it wouldn't happen, because Eddie would jump in front of them and make it about the Eddie Hearn show. Where's the Naseem Hamed of today? He doesn't allow them to flourish.

I watched a Katie Taylor interview, really interesting and then Eddie Hearn barges in! "Oi, hello, apples and pears!" You should be promoting your fighters, not yourself. Technically I'm more of a promoter than you are.

I've noticed since I've been out is Eddie Hearn and this fight gives me an opportunity to shut him up.

Everyone is a genius after the fight.

If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.

I think ring rust is an excuse people use when they don't box well.

I'm fast for a middleweight - I have middleweight speed.

I'm fast for a cruiserweight.

I'm fast for a heavyweight.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

To move up to heavyweight to fight me is a jump too far, in my opinion.