Quotes from Tyson Fury

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.

I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

I'm looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don't think Wladimir is going to take the fight.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV.

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.

I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.

It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.

I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

I don't need David Haye and his antics to earn money.

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.