Tommy Morrison

“People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.”

“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.”

“I've always been painted as this party animal.”

“If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn't get any criticism. Because I'm white, people expect so much more out of me. That's a little unfair, but life isn't fair.”

“I hate being around boxing people. I'd rather be back in the gym.”

“People need to cut me a break.”

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

“I never - I mean, I never saw any doctor's report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.”

“I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.”

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

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

“I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Very few fighters get a chance to come back.”

“I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees, and I prayed.”

“I don't think I have HIV. I don't think that I ever had HIV. I think I had hepatitis. I got rid of the hepatitis, and since then, every single time I have tested for HIV, it has been negative. The original test was a false positive.”

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