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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.