Tommy Morrison Quotes

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Tommy Morrison

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 2, 1969

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

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I would welcome a Mike Tyson fight with open arms.

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

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Friendships can go only so far.

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I've made a lot of mistakes in my life.

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People thought I was crazy for fighting Michael Bentt.

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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.

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I don't ever think in terms of losing. That's not even a possibility. I've been beaten once, and I don't ever want to experience that again.

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When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

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

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My life has been very much a roller coaster ride. Not just the boxing part, not just the acting part, just my childhood, what I was into at a young age and the things I was exposed to, it's just very abnormal.

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I didn't have the greatest equipment or the greatest facilities. I would see people with new shoes and better cars. I knew what I wanted and what I had to do to get what I wanted. I became a very Spartan person at a young age because of that.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

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Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

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

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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.

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