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I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.
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I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.
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I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.
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I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
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I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.
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I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama.
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Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.
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All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
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I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.
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Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
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I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.
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People can say what they want about me. But I've got a big heart and will keep going.
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There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
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Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
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Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
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My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She's a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone's in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That's my opinion.
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They are the three venues I wanted to box in - I wasn't really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.
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I'm like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.
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I'm a unique fighter - one of a kind.
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Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That's my ideal fight.
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My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
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If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?
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Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
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He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.