“We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.”

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

It’s no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to… y’know, we’ll plan ideas and we’ll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren’t any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.

What happened to the men’s boxing is happening to the women’s boxing, but not all the time. Every now and then, you get some really great fights. It’s a money thing and how many people are going to buy that pay-per-view for the fights. The UFC is eventually going to go that way.

If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men.