Words matter. These are the best Frank Bruno Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
People need to have compassion for others.
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn’t going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You’ve got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy.
I didn’t play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.
Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don’t remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.
If you say you’ve had a nervous breakdown or things aren’t right mentally, people run away from you. They think you’re from ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,’ you know.
Sometimes your dreams come true.
I ain’t got no right to judge someone.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
My head has got regrets, but I haven’t.
I wouldn’t mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.
Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
If your brain’s not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.
But when you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy.
There’s enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
