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.
TYSON FURYI 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’ve challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He’s a little boy who doesn’t want to fight. He said no, live on TV.
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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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Everything I’ve set out to do, I’ve achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
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I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.
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I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
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If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it’s just stupidness, isn’t it?
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I’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.
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I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad’s always dealt cars, and I’ve always been brought up around them. They’re one of the things I’ve always been interested in.
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As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.
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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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My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well.
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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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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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All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
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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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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 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.
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I’ve got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I’ll make it extremely hard.
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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’m a little bit backward. I didn’t really go to school.
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You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.
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Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down.
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