Top 66 Dereck Chisora Quotes

Most guys are defeated before they step into the ring with the Klitschkos. They start shaking with fear in their boots.

Bisexuality started a long, long time ago. You just have to support it. There’s nothing wrong with it. We all bleed the same, we’re all going one way in the end – six feet down. I support the gays 24/7.

Fighters just want to be the best.

Sometimes you think you’ve prepared and it turns out it’s not enough.

I know one day I will be the world heavyweight champion and that Britain will be proud of me.

Every fight is important.

If you don’t have your gameplan right, as a big man against a little man, you are in trouble.

I don’t really care about belts. Look at all the greats, they fight for the right to be called the best and the crowd.

I knew Szpilka from around 2004, after he had stopped being a football hooligan and I was over in Poland for business. We did some filming together for about 10 minutes and hung out afterwards, he is a cool guy.

Dillian Whyte hasn’t got any power. He hit me with his best shot, didn’t even bother me, and he knows that. I hit him with my best shot and he was asleep and I hit him with another one and I woke him up.

I’m from the streets.

If I was Mayor of London, I would take the congestion charge off. I’d keep the bike lanes. And buses free on a Thursday.

I just want to fight Dillian Whyte. He never beat me the first time, so I want to show the people.

I used to be a crazy man.

Loads of people wrote me off.

Takam is tough. I realized I couldn’t trade with him toe-to-toe. I knew the overhand right could catch him.

Boarding school forces you to grow. You have to wake up at a certain time, you have to study, wash your own clothes. We used to play rugby in whites. Can you imagine washing that? And it has to be white. If it was not white, you got punished.

David Price is a big guy but he has not used his advantages, I have known him since the amateurs in the early 2000s and I would always see him in the Boxing News magazine.

I deliver the fans what they want. I create a jolly!

I’m happy with my life.

Boxing needs me.

I would like to fight Wilder because he’s a great name, he’s knocked out nearly all his opponents. I personally just want to fight Wilder.

What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don’t fear that is lying.

I did probation for three years.

We do everything for money.

I’m always nervous before a fight, any fighter that says they’re not is lying.

I’ve won, I’ve failed – so many things have gone wrong for me. There’s been ups and downs.

Fighting behind closed doors is like going back to be an amateur, or your early days as a professional. Up and coming fighters can do it but for your bigger guys like Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and me, I don’t think we can do that.

David Haye is a drama queen and I don’t know why more attention is being given to a drama queen but the show must go on.

I prefer to not be soft.

If you run you are a chicken.

This is the boxing game. There is no ducking and diving.

I used to spar Dillian when he was doing kick-boxing.

I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn’t have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on Friday with his pay and gave the rent money to my mum. He’d put aside money for food and stuff and he’d keep the rest. That’s how Africans lived, but there was enough to go around.

I might lose nine or 11 rounds but who knows what’s going to happen in the 12th round?

I’m a rude person. But men are hunters. We look. We like. We approach. Women don’t like the fact I do it with a swagger. They don’t like me walking into the room like I got a million dollars in my pocket, when I ain’t. But as a boxer you need that swagger.

I love being a father.

I really want to fight Deontay.

I’m not the best fighter but I’m the craziest fighter.

As long as I can wake up in the morning and want to train, I will fight.

Me, I don’t know anything. Don’t even know fighters in my own division.

I talk to a shrink. I actually enjoy it, but it costs too much money – it’s like £250 a session! It’s good though, the whole nation should be on it.

There’s nothing wrong with being gay or lesbian. If my cousin was gay I’d support him. If my sister was a lesbian I’d support her.

Every time I go to the judges, I never get it.

No cares about the Muhammad Ali trophy.

To get a fighter like Usyk is a lie and for him to get a fighter to spar like me is a lie. I didn’t need anyone to box like Usyk, what I wanted was southpaws to see the way they stand and the way they move their feet.

Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don’t mind.

The people, the fans, the pundits, the people who watch on TV, they are the judges.

I like to go to peoples backyards. I’m a better fight on the road than at home.

I have changed. I was born again, I’ve been going to church.

Del Boy’ is no more, I am not playing, I am not cutting corners or looking for the short cuts, I have realised I need to live the life of a professional if I am to achieve what I know I am capable of.

You don’t want athletes who are as dry as a bone, you don’t want to turn your TV on and see someone boring.

Muhammad Ali wasn’t loved, people forget that, but people paid for tickets to see him fight. In retirement, he’s loved. As long as people are talking about you, that’s a good thing.

Believe me, I’m more afraid of my mother than any opponent in the ring.

I don’t box, I bring war. I like war.

When you’re a dad you get guys who say ‘I don’t change nappies’ but really and truly everyone changes nappies.

People who have never boxed before, never worked hard in boxing, and they are starting to come in and people forget about the real boxers.

Everyone else who has fought the Klitschko brothers has been scared.

I’m not rich, I’m not poor.

For me to stand there and try to pick my punches, I can’t do that.

I say what I like to say. Most people don’t want to break people’s feelings, but I just say how I feel.

The Klitschkos have ruled for too long and I can’t wait to get into the ring in Germany and smash the living daylights out of Wladimir first. Vitali is waiting in the background and I’ll deal with him once I’ve dealt with Wladimir.

I don’t care if people are booing me. They can boo all they like.

The simplest thing is – Dillian Whyte can’t hurt me.

I’ve lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.

After I retire I don’t want to say ‘I could have done this and that.’ I just want to give it all while I can.