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I was always quiet and even timid.
There are more important things in life than boxing.
I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.
If I could unify my second weight division, that would be huge.
There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.
But if I ever fight in Northern Ireland again, I want it to be at Windsor Park.
My mum's very vocal about me, aye. She's very proud. It's just a bit embarrassing.
Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.
I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful.
As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.
It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.
From Tiger's Bay in Belfast to the MGM in Vegas... it's been some ride so far. And the best is still to come.
I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.
A loss in boxing is different to any sport. It can set your career back a few years. So I fear losing more than anything.
I get spotted quite a bit walking about the streets in Belfast and it's okay, I don't mind it, they come up and shake your hand.
I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.
There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.
He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's not bumptious or brash.
It's good to go and get photographs taken with people who come out and support you. I don't mind that, having a chat and shaking people's hands.
I just want to win a world title - that's the main objective and whether it happens at Windsor or whether it happens in America it doesn't matter.
You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.
That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.
I was seven or eight and a kid who was easily picked on. Not bullied but other kids would've told me what to do in the streets. I was very shy. I used to put my head down.
If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.
In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger's Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.
I'll respect any man that walks into the ring but people like Eddie Hearn and Joe Gallagher who've never taken a slap in the mouth in their lives shouldn't be disrespectful towards me and other fighters.
In Tiger's Bay I saw trouble I shouldn't have seen. But 95% of the people there are good and they're coming out to support me - just like in New Lodge which is the opposition or whatever you want to call it.
Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.
I remember going through checkpoints as a kid. It felt normal but, looking back, of course it created tension. People standing with guns, sometimes your car getting searched and being asked where you are going. It changes the atmosphere.