Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Bellew
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.
I am the best cruiserweight in the world.
I want to punch everything and fight the world.
I fear no man. I really don't.
My dream is to fight at Goodison Park. Forget Wembley, or Vegas, I just want to fight at Goodison Park. It's been a dream ever since I was a child; no one's ever done it.
I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.
I've made some bad mistakes in life.
You will all laugh and say I wouldn't have a chance, but I would knock Andre Ward out - or I will outbox him. He is a pound-for-pound great, but I can match him on the inside, and he has never fought anyone who could do that.
I've had a fantastic career.
There will be no more fighting from me. The only things you will see me doing from here on in is trying to act sensible and behave myself.
I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
Style makes fights; I've always said it.
Normal athletes couldn't do what Premier League football players can do.
Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.
On May 29 2016, my wildest dreams came true. I became the WBC cruiserweight champion of the world at Goodison Park. The dream location, the dream title, the dream ending, a third-round knockout of Iunga Makabu.
My legacy is secure.
I just idolise Nigel Benn, the things he said, how ferocious he was, how intimidating he was - I just loved watching him. As I do the old Mike Tyson, the '89 Mike Tyson. The Tyson who walked to the ring with a white towel on and looked ferocious. He frightened me just watching him.
I've achieved all my dreams.
I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.
I defy anyone in the world to trade with me.
I just want to be left alone.
I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.
The speed and timing go with age.
Every single time I step into a ring, the same thing is on the line. Take away belts, take away money, take away glamour and fame. Ultimately, I'm fighting for one thing, and that's my life.
I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.
I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.
I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.
I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.
What my family's been through I can't even put into words. We're very close.
Usyk is less of a puncher than Lomachenko but comes with just as high a work rate, so Usyk has to take some to give some to be exciting, whereas Lomachenko has genuine power, and he can stop fighters with that power.
When it's all said and done, Linares is an exceptional fighter.
You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.
I love looking back at the older fights; they don't make them like they used to. Just watching Tommy Hearns, the technique in his punching, the brilliance and the combinations from the likes of Ray Leonard and 'Sugar' Ray Robinson.
As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.
I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.
Usyk could beat me - he's beaten better than me, so he could beat me - but I just don't think he will, and I will find a way.
Especially with someone like me, my family know how much I push myself to the absolute limit.
When I go into a boxing ring, I'm willing to die.
Everyone knows I get off the floor, and I fight until the finish.
David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.
I can't and won't be defeated at Goodison Park, the greatest stadium in the world.
Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.
I say some silly things now and again.
When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.
I would never talking about hating a fighter. I don't hate no one.
I'm from the street. We all know that.
My goal first and foremost when I walk into that boxing ring is to get home safe to my missus and three children, because they're all in life that need me, and they really do need me.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.
Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.
I'm not a perfect person - far from it.
People don't drop me with shots on the temple.
I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He's a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.
Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.
Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood - I certainly don't understand women.
Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.
My dad, my missus, my sons, I do it all for them.
I'm after megafights, and me fighting Haye equals megafight.
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