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I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.