A biography for Tommy Morrisonhasn’t been written yet.
“When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.”
“I've got plenty of contacts in Hollywood.”
“People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.”
“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.”
“When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn't learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.”
“I'll tell you this: Tommy Morrison has a tattoo of Elvis Presley on his butt, he likes to hunt and fish, and his favorite movie is 'GoodFellas.'”
“The rush you get from competing in front of the whole world, there's nothing like it.”
“I couldn't fart in an elevator without people wanting to sue me.”
“Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.”
“I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.”
“I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.”
“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.”
“I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.”
“To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.”
“I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.”
“I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.”
“My life out of the ring caught up with me.”
“You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.”
“I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.”
“I've seen God work in my life, and I know what he's capable of, and I know what he does for his people that love him.”