I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

I know there are sort of misnomers that women's hockey isn't as physical or fast as the guys, but women's hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It's just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.

I'm very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I'm in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.

I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.