Top 70 Quotes About Lennox Lewis
#1. He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.
Tyson Fury
#2. The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.
Meg Ryan
#3. There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.
Vitali Klitschko
#4. I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson
#5. People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.
Lennox Lewis
#6. I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
Lennox Lewis
#7. Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury.
Tyson Fury
#8. I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
Lennox Lewis
#9. Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
Lennox Lewis
#10. My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
Lennox Lewis
#11. Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.
Lennox Lewis
#12. There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.
Lennox Lewis
#13. After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.
Lennox Lewis
#14. When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.
Lennox Lewis
#15. In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
Lennox Lewis
#16. I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.
Lennox Lewis
#17. I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.
Lennox Lewis
#18. I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.
Lennox Lewis
#19. I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.
Lennox Lewis
#20. I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.
Lennox Lewis
#21. The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.
Lennox Lewis
#22. Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.
Lennox Lewis
#23. Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
Lennox Lewis
#24. I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.
Lennox Lewis
#25. If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face ... No problem.
Lennox Lewis
#26. There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.
Lennox Lewis
#27. Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
#29. People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.
Lennox Lewis
#30. I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.
Lennox Lewis
#31. During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
Lennox Lewis
#32. I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.
Lennox Lewis
#33. The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.
Lennox Lewis
#35. I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.
Lennox Lewis
#36. I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.
Lennox Lewis
#38. If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
Lennox Lewis
#39. For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
Lennox Lewis
#40. You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.
Lennox Lewis
#41. Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.
Lennox Lewis
#42. I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.
Lennox Lewis
#43. When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.
Lennox Lewis
#44. Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.
Lennox Lewis
#45. Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
Lennox Lewis
#46. Whatever I do, I always want to get better.
Lennox Lewis
#47. So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.
Lennox Lewis
#48. I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.
Lennox Lewis
#49. There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.
Lennox Lewis
#50. In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
Lennox Lewis
#51. Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
Lennox Lewis
#53. I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
Lennox Lewis
#54. When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.
Lennox Lewis
#55. I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
Lennox Lewis
#56. I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
Lennox Lewis
#57. The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
#58. I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.
Lennox Lewis
#59. The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Lennox Lewis
#60. You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals
my mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
#61. If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.
Lennox Lewis
#62. After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.
Lennox Lewis
#63. [Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.
Lennox Lewis
#64. When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.
Lennox Lewis
#65. It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
Lennox Lewis
#66. The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.
Lennox Lewis
#67. Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.
Lennox Lewis
#68. [Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.
Lennox Lewis
#69. How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
Lennox Lewis
#70. I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.
Lennox Lewis
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