A biography for James Toneyhasn’t been written yet.
“Challenges motivate me.”
“I never turn down a challenge. I never turn down a fight. I don't even turn down my collar.”
“I'm not afraid to tell people how I feel.”
“If people have to train outside, in the woods, they're not disciplined.”
“I like watching Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell... Anderson Silva, BJ Penn, Georges St. Pierre, I'm a big fan of all those guys.”
“I'm Big Daddy.”
“I look at it like this, just because you're big doesn't mean you're bad or anything like that. It's all in the heart.”
“Look, I'm the best fighter Randy Couture has ever fought in his life.”
“I love fighting. It's in my blood.”
“I love beating up on heavyweights.”
“MMA fighters are scared to go toe to toe with a boxer; it's not going to happen... their best chance of winning is trying to get the fighter to the floor.”
“I don't like people because you don't know who to trust.”
“I love England! I hate the fighters but I love the people.”
“I want to let everybody know what a real fighter does, a real fighter who really knows what he's doing with his hands.”
“I got respect for Randy Couture, but MMA fighters are scared to come to my sport - so I'm going to theirs.”
“The old school fighters were the best fighters, but those days are gone.”
“My goal is to let everybody know I'm the greatest fighter to ever put on gloves.”
“Everybody out there who thinks I'm going to lose isn't going to believe what I do to him. Randy Couture can't offer me anything I haven't seen inside a ring, and when I hit him, it's going to set a gold standard.”
“The person I wanted to fight right off the bat was Brock Lesnar.”
“Lesnar ran away from Shane Carwin like a girl, but then Carwin ran out of gas and quit.”