Tommy Morrison Quotes

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Tommy Morrison

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 2, 1969

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.

Tommy Morrison

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

Tommy Morrison

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.

Tommy Morrison

I just turned 27 years old, and there are mornings where my knees and ankles really hurt. I hurt all over. I would hate to be me when I'm 35 years old. I'll be a basket case, but I will have a lot of memories.

Tommy Morrison

If I met a girl, I'd tell her straight up, 'I might run into someone else I want to go out with; don't be offended.' Was that acceptable to them? It had to be. There were enough girls. They were expendable.

Tommy Morrison

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

Tommy Morrison

God, it's good to come home. No matter what you achieve, you come home, and everything is normal.

Tommy Morrison

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.

Tommy Morrison

I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.

Tommy Morrison

It's a big move from the 'Tough Man' circuit to professional boxing. When I turned pro, I had to play catch-up and was fighting almost twice a month until I had more than 20 fights under my belt.

Tommy Morrison

I just want to pursue my dream. That is to fight. That is what God put me here to do. He didn't put me here to be a doctor or a lawyer. He put me here to fight.

Tommy Morrison

I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.

Tommy Morrison

People need to cut me a break.

Tommy Morrison

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

Tommy Morrison

HIV changed my life, but I think I've accepted it. I don't even think about it unless someone brings it up.

Tommy Morrison

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.

Tommy Morrison

Very few fighters get a chance to come back.

Tommy Morrison

My life out of the ring caught up with me.

Tommy Morrison

I've always been painted as this party animal.

Tommy Morrison

I'm a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I'm simply competing in a sport that I love.

Tommy Morrison