Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Tommy Morrison
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.
People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.
I've seen God work in my life, and I know what he's capable of, and I know what he does for his people that love him.
I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.
I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.
When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn't learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.
The rug was yanked out from under my feet by a misdiagnosis. All I want to do is fight.
I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.
I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.
If I met a girl, I'd tell her straight up, 'I might run into someone else I want to go out with; don't be offended.' Was that acceptable to them? It had to be. There were enough girls. They were expendable.
I lived a permissive, fast, and reckless lifestyle. I hope I can serve as a warning that living this lifestyle can really lead to only one thing, and that's misery.
People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.
I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim... I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.
HIV changed my life, but I think I've accepted it. I don't even think about it unless someone brings it up.
Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.
I've got plenty of contacts in Hollywood.
The rush you get from competing in front of the whole world, there's nothing like it.
There's nothing more intimidating than crawling into a ring.
I've always been painted as this party animal.
HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.
Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.
I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.
I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees, and I prayed.
God, it's good to come home. No matter what you achieve, you come home, and everything is normal.
I will lay down and die before I take any drugs.
The 'Tough Man' contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn't know how to fight.
I hate being around boxing people. I'd rather be back in the gym.
I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.
I've got the most complex - my life isn't boring. It never has been.
It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.
The heavyweight division needs me.
If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn't get any criticism. Because I'm white, people expect so much more out of me. That's a little unfair, but life isn't fair.
With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.
In the heavyweight division, you can't afford to make a mistake.
As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.
My life out of the ring caught up with me.
I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.
The mind is a very strong thing.
It's a big move from the 'Tough Man' circuit to professional boxing. When I turned pro, I had to play catch-up and was fighting almost twice a month until I had more than 20 fights under my belt.
You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.
The fact that there's never been a single documented case in the history of this planet of anyone ever contracting HIV in the ring seems to me like a leg perfectly strong enough to stand on in terms of a lawsuit.
I'm a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I'm simply competing in a sport that I love.
Very few fighters get a chance to come back.
Ever since I was a kid, I've been confident of coming out on top in a brawl, but the ring is a lot different from a bar. That's been my problem.
I never - I mean, I never saw any doctor's report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.
I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.
I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.
I just turned 27 years old, and there are mornings where my knees and ankles really hurt. I hurt all over. I would hate to be me when I'm 35 years old. I'll be a basket case, but I will have a lot of memories.
I just want to pursue my dream. That is to fight. That is what God put me here to do. He didn't put me here to be a doctor or a lawyer. He put me here to fight.
Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.
I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.
To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.
I don't think I have HIV. I don't think that I ever had HIV. I think I had hepatitis. I got rid of the hepatitis, and since then, every single time I have tested for HIV, it has been negative. The original test was a false positive.
I've had a lot of people tell me I'm faster than Tyson.
People need to cut me a break.
I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he's got one of the best chins in the game.
I couldn't fart in an elevator without people wanting to sue me.
I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They'd really have to make it worth my while.
I'll tell you this: Tommy Morrison has a tattoo of Elvis Presley on his butt, he likes to hunt and fish, and his favorite movie is 'GoodFellas.'
I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.
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