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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

I've had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I've had decisions. I've had grinding fights.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.

You have to be super focused when you're boxing. After I've done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.