David Haye Quotes

I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.

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

The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.

It’s boxing. It’s about getting people interested. If I didn’t say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn’t be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to knock out both Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, and I don’t care what order they fall in.

Slowly but surely, as time goes on, people forget about you. People stop talking about you. You stop seeing your name in the papers. I like to believe that I don’t think that will bother me. As long as I know I’ve achieved my goals and people believe I’m the best at what I do, then I’ll be happy.

I’ve got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

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.

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

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

It’s often my opponent’s plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don’t hear the final bell.

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.

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

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

It’s always my plan to knock out my opponents.

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

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

Money talks at the end of the day.

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

I’m a showman.

If I hit the Klitschkos with the same shots I was hitting John Ruiz, both of them would go over.

I always fight better when my opponent’s angry.

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.

It would be nice to crack America, but I need the opponent to do that. If Eddie Chambers is the best American heavyweight they can dig up, it’s a very sad state of affairs.

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.

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

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

Fury said he would rather fight his cousin than me.

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.

What I want to achieve in boxing is worldwide. I want to show I’m not just a British commodity… To do that, you have to fight the best and fight all over the world.

I want to fight who the fans who want me to fight.

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

There is no room for sentiment in a boxing ring.

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.

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

Mark de Mori is a solid operator.

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.

I’m going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

I have the heart of lion.

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

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

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

Anything’s possible if you set your heart on something, no matter how big and how crazy it seems.

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

The Klitschkos don’t care about being great fighters, whereas I do. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight.

There are probably one million dudes in America called Kevin Johnson, and beating one of them doesn’t make you an all-time great heavyweight.

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

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.