Quotes from Tommy Morrison

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

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.

Very few fighters get a chance to come back.

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

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.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

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 thought I had the potential to be a better fighter than I'd ever be a football player. Besides, it was something my father always wanted me to do. He told me since I was a little kid I was a born fighter.

Friendships can go only so far.

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.

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

I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.

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.

You don't knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.

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.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

I was the first player at Jay to play four years varsity. As a frosh, I was a punter. From my soph through senior years, I started as a linebacker and tight end and was all-state as a senior.

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

In the heavyweight division, you can't afford to make a mistake.

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

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.'

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.