All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
TYSON FURYI’ve got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything’s on the line all the time. In my fights, there’s drama.
More Tyson Fury Quotes
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As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.
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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.
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Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.
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It’s not about how much money I’m getting paid. It’s just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I’m at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I’m the master of it all.
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Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he’s fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
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I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
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I’m like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.
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My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don’t pray regularly enough.
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I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well.
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I’m not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, ‘Don’t do that because you’re a girl?’
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My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn’t have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.
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I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
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Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
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I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.
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Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.
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I’m a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That’s all we do: we fight.
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For me, it’s about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That’s what I am, and that’s what I intend to do.
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Women have to be pure and respectful.
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My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.
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Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.
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I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I’m not going to be involved in good fights, then what’s the point being a boxer?
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Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I’ll throw a 2-1.
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There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
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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?
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I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.
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I don’t hate old men but listen when being spoken to.
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