David Haye Quotes

I didn't expect one day I become world champion in the United States. I'm very proud to be together with boxing legends. It's a dream to be in with Muhammad Ali.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.

I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world champion. But I've always been my own man.

At 19, I was European champion, and at 21, I was world champion. Let's just hope Amir Khan can follow in the same footsteps. I believe he can do it 100%; he's a fantastic talent.

I always want to fight for the belt. I don't really care.

Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

If I beat Canelo Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, I wake up the next day the king of New York and the new face of boxing.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in the same light as him, now I'm fighting him.

Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.

I have been dreaming about the heavyweight title it seems since I was born.

It was and is a great honor to hold the WBC title, and I've always done it with pride.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

I'm trying to be the best in the world and get that pound-for-pound spot and I'm trying to get paid.

My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate.

What I want to achieve in boxing is worldwide. I want to show I'm not just a British commodity... To do that, you have to fight the best and fight all over the world.