Tony Bellew Quotes

Some say I’m arrogant, some say I’m deluded.

I’m from the street. We all know that.

This World Boxing Super Series has been a breath of fresh air.

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.

In the build-up to a fight, I am scared, and I do worry about myself. But once I step into that arena, that worry has gone. A switch gets flicked, and I want to do damage. All I care about is doing damage as fast as possible.

I want to punch everything and fight the world.

I’ve got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.

I’ve made some bad mistakes in life.

Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.

Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I’ve done it on multiple occasions.

I’ve always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

I am not a heavy drinker, I’ve never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

I love the sound of a Tyson Fury fight.

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.

I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.

The Isaac Chilemba fight was draining.

I’m not a perfect person – far from it.

I just want to be left alone.

I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I’m something I’m not. I’ll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.

I just tell the truth. Some people don’t like it. Some people do.

My dad, my missus, my sons, I do it all for them.

I love ‘Rambo.’

What people have to realise is that it’s not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It’s living away from home for 12 weeks. It’s sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

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.

When I go into a boxing ring, I’m willing to die.

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 like hurting people.

I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.

I say some silly things now and again.

I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I’d see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I’d watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It’s funny how things turn out.

I’m after megafights, and me fighting Haye equals megafight.

Normal athletes couldn’t do what Premier League football players can do.

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.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It’s not personal or that I hate them: it’s just that I know what I’ve had to sacrifice to face them.

I had a headache for four days after the first Haye fight. I didn’t tell anyone, I just went to bed and thought it would go. But for four days it remained. Then I got my brain scan before the second fight, and I was worried when I went for it.

My legacy is secure.

When I say something, I mean it.

I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.

I’ve never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.

Just because I beat David Haye doesn’t make me a great fighter. I’m still the same fighter that I was.

I’m very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

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.

I ain’t a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

No matter what happens, I’ll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.

I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone – that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I’m happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.

I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don’t have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don’t have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.

I’ve achieved all my dreams.

I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.

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.

Everyone knows I get off the floor, and I fight until the finish.

I would never talking about hating a fighter. I don’t hate no one.

I don’t claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.