Top 40 Tommy Morrison Quotes

I was one of the most popular fighters of my era.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They’d really have to make it worth my while.

People don’t like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.

I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn’t the strongest person in the world.

There’s nothing more intimidating than crawling into a ring.

The rush you get from competing in front of the whole world, there’s nothing like it.

I’ve got the most complex – my life isn’t boring. It never has been.

I never – I mean, I never saw any doctor’s report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.

I’ve seen God work in my life, and I know what he’s capable of, and I know what he does for his people that love him.

The fact that there’s never been a single documented case in the history of this planet of anyone ever contracting HIV in the ring seems to me like a leg perfectly strong enough to stand on in terms of a lawsuit.

I don’t think I have HIV. I don’t think that I ever had HIV. I think I had hepatitis. I got rid of the hepatitis, and since then, every single time I have tested for HIV, it has been negative. The original test was a false positive.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been confident of coming out on top in a brawl, but the ring is a lot different from a bar. That’s been my problem.

I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim… I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.

I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring – he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring… he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.

To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.

I’ll trust an attorney before I’ll trust a doctor.

People watch me… whatever I do, wherever I go.

I think there’s a lot of people out there who, if George Foreman had to get beat, I’m the one fighter they would like to see beat him.

Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn’t have anything growing up.

You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you’re a mentally weak person.

Boy, I wouldn’t want to live in L.A.

Everyone wants to see the heavyweight division unified. It’ll happen.

I don’t believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

I’ve always been painted as this party animal.

I’m going to bring the championship home to Kansas City.

There’s a family tradition of fighting in the Kansas City Golden Gloves. My older brother, Tim, did, and so did my father’s two youngest brothers, Trent and Troy. They all won the Golden Gloves. So when my mother asked me to keep the tradition going, I did.

I’ve got plenty of contacts in Hollywood.

Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.

The rug was yanked out from under my feet by a misdiagnosis. All I want to do is fight.

If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn’t get any criticism. Because I’m white, people expect so much more out of me. That’s a little unfair, but life isn’t fair.

I thought I had the potential to be a better fighter than I’d ever be a football player. Besides, it was something my father always wanted me to do. He told me since I was a little kid I was a born fighter.

I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he’s got one of the best chins in the game.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

The ‘Tough Man’ contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn’t know how to fight.

I would welcome a Mike Tyson fight with open arms.

I lived a permissive, fast, and reckless lifestyle. I hope I can serve as a warning that living this lifestyle can really lead to only one thing, and that’s misery.

You don’t knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.