Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Tyson Fury
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
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.
At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.
Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.
It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.
Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn't dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn't get involved.
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.
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.
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.
I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.
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.
My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.
Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.
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.
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.
I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary.
I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.
I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.
I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
Everything is possible through God, and I'm living proof of that.
What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.
I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.
Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.
My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She's a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone's in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That's my opinion.
My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
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.
There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.
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?'
If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
Women have to be pure and respectful.
My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.
Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.
I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.
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.
People can say what they want about me. But I've got a big heart and will keep going.
I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.
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.
There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
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.
There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.
Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.
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.
I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.
I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.
Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.
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.
Let's make this clear: I do not hate anybody.
I'm a unique fighter - one of a kind.
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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