At the end of the day, we’re all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
TYSON FURYThere’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
More Tyson Fury Quotes
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I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
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I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.
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There are 7 billion people in the world, but there’s only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that’s me.
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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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Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
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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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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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I already know what boxers do; I’ve been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.
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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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They are the three venues I wanted to box in – I wasn’t really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.
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Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that’s just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.
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I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.
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Training’s training; boxing’s boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.
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As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.
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Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That’s my ideal fight.
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I’m a little bit backward. I didn’t really go to school.
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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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I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don’t like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.
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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 like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.
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Women have to be pure and respectful.
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I will be dictated to by nobody. I’m the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don’t like it, change the station.
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I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
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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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I’d like to take a course in writing. I’m not the best writer in the world. I’d like to write more neatly, even though people don’t send many handwritten letters these days.
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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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