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Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.
When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.
I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.
At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.
I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.
I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.
I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.
When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.
My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.
Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua? Styles make fights, and that would be a great clash of styles and a great clash of personalities.
I fall back on my faith; whatever happens, whatever goes wrong in your life, Muslims thank God because it could have gone worse.
Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.
I've been asked by 'Big Brother,' 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!,' 'Strictly' and 'Dancing on Ice,' but it's not for me.
I've fought at such a high level I couldn't have people look at me and say, 'well, he's just fought someone to knock them over.'
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.
Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.
I am trying to be better than anybody who ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, and I think that pretty much sums up everything.
There's only a few people in the country who have as much experience on the boxing scene as my father, especially at world level.
When I was making my way to the ring and when I fight, to see people cheering for me, it makes me feel that I'm somebody special.
You have to have people around you that know what makes you happy and know what makes you mad. I have the right people around me.
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
A lot of people knew at the national tournaments that I was a big puncher. We were known as 'Samson,' the boy with the long hair.
Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.
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'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.
There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
Manny Pacquiao's just not a technical guy. He's a world class fighter and that's what always makes him one of the fan's favorites.
I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.
Before I turned professional I used to do carpet fitting for my dad. I wasn't much good, it's a miracle I've still got 10 fingers.
I do not like Andre Ward. I want to destroy this guy as a boxer, as a champion. For me he is not a champion, he's a fake champion.
I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.
While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.
At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in the history books.
People don't realize I tore my rotator cuff when I was 12 or 13. At that time, being so young, we decided just to not have surgery.