Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by David Haye

Mark de Mori is a solid operator.

I've got no desire to fight Dereck Chisora inside the ring or outside the ring.

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.

I've had a lot of good nights, and ideally, I don't want to be remembered for a bad night.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

One thing you can guarantee with the Travellers, they've got a lot of heart.

My punching power passes any other heavyweight.

My son's dream is to win Wimbledon - I'd love that.

I would fight till I'm dead. This is why I am here. I am put on Earth to fight. I feel it deep in my waters.

Fighting in Germany, Wladimir Klitschko makes so much money for everyone.

I spent more than £150,000 on a limited-edition Mercedes SL.

When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.

I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.

Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward. Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali. You get these rivalries in boxing - not that often, so when you do get them, why do you want to sanitise it?

Once I have beaten Mormeck, I don't feel there'll be anything left to prove. After winning the world title, I will be recognised as the No. 1 cruiserweight in the world.

I definitely believe if you give me any part of your chin, you are going to sleep.

I love watching reruns of 'Sex And The City.'

I have the heart of lion.

It's the warm-up in the changing room when I switch on. I don't even think about the fight until then. Some fighters are bouncing about the walls, but I switch off. Then it's like someone flicks a switch in me.

You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else like them but fight someone who has might won an Olympics before, been a world champion, and is just coming back to fight some kids, I think is insane.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

People say, 'Where do you get your strength from?' Well, where does an ape get his strength from? They are 20 times stronger than humans, and they don't rely on a meat-based diet. They eat plants all day long. It's a myth that you need meat for strength.

I have always maintained you should be able to bench press and deadlift at least twice your body weight.

Even though he's a moron, I supported Tyson Fury.

I'm too fast, too sexy, and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

Money talks at the end of the day.

If you ever need a good steak, Stringfellows is the place to go in London.

A lot of people say, 'OK, I'm overweight, so I'm not going to eat any food; I'm only going to have an apple a day,' but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you've got to do is increase your metabolism.

I eat tall, chinny, Eastern European heavyweights for breakfast.

I'd like to be one of the ones who got out on his own terms.

The whole idea behind going ahead with this Chisora fight was that a victory may then lead to a fight with Vitali Klitschko.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

I was born with a black eye. When they pulled me out with the forceps, they clamped them round my face, so I had a big bruise from that.

Nobody will hold it against him if he cancels the fight with Dereck Chisora - the public aren't interested in that fight; nobody knows who he is. It is pretty sad but shows the mindset of Wladimir Klitschko and why he will go down in history as a heavyweight who just fought the worst possible people out there.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

I've been in the ring with the Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I've tasted his power, and he's tasted mine.

Maybe Tony Bellew is my Benn-Eubank.

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.

There is no room for sentiment in a boxing ring.

Fight fans just want to see the best against the best - if only it was that simple.

It makes absolutely no sense for me to turn down a fight I desperately want.

Look what the Rumble in the Jungle did for Zaire. No one had ever heard of Zaire until then. After Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman for the title, no one forgets it.

The Hayemaker is a dangerous fellow who, when the bell rings, is on a seek and destroy mission, by any means necessary. No playing around. No comedy. It's just straight-up business.

I've never been to Ukraine, but I have heard it's very dangerous for a black man. There are crazy racists who have already sent me death threats.

In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.

Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.

Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don't think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There's a difference between being a coward and being scared, or apprehensive. Different fighters have got different mentalities.

I've got three Bentleys, a couple of Mercs, and two Range Rovers.

Fury said he would rather fight his cousin than me.

Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.

Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.

To beat Wladimir Klitschko, I have to be better than I've ever been.

I am not interested in fighting against 50 wimps like the Klitschkos do.

There are no shortcut to losing weight. Just hard work and dedication, hard work and dedication.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

Only time will tell whether the Klitschkos need me more than I need them. They won't believe that. But it depends what they want out of boxing. If they want guaranteed easy victories, then they can do what they've always done, but if they want a tough challenge, you'd think they would want to beat down my door.

It's hard to judge somebody before or after a fight. Adrenaline is flowing, and you're hyped up.