“I’m a little bit backward. I didn’t really go to school.”

Everything is possible through God, and I’m living proof of that.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.

My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.

There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

I don’t hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

I’ve said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It’s all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.

I’ve sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That’s not very personality is it?

Although there’s been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I’m my own Tyson. I’m Tyson Fury. I ain’t trying to be anybody else.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I’ve got money in the bank. I’m not in need of a few quid – as it stands. It’s all irrelevant to me.

As you know, I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. And while I’m abroad on training camp, I train three times a day, often for two hours a time, and I haven’t got time to respond to all the people that ask questions.

I’m looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don’t think Wladimir is going to take the fight.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.