To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in Nashville, so I got in underage. I was 16. She did because I begged her to do it.
I have been to the States many times. What I enjoy most is the feeling of being undercover, that no one recognizes me. When I go to the airport almost anywhere in Europe or Africa, I am recognized.
Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.
It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.
The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn't deserve to be undercut. And I didn't want that to happen.
I've always been passionate about the concept of helping the underdog. It just doesn't make sense to me as to what kind of person would take a huge platform and not use it to do something, to change something, to help people.
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.
That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
Think about Kennedy. Think about Carter. Think about Clinton. Think about Obama. They've all been in their forties and from outside Washington, or underdogs in one way or another. I just think that Americans are looking everywhere, saying, 'Hey, show me some authenticity. Show me somebody who's practical. Show me people who run things.'
I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.
I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
A lot of people underestimated me, and I'm used to that.
Anthony Joshua, I'm pretty sure he's underestimating me, man.
It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.
That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me.
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
I am used to people underestimating me.
