Lennox Lewis Quotes About Tyson

Quotes about: Tyson

• 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

  Character, Boxing, Cartoon

• The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Careers, Tyson

• Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

  Lennox Lewis

  Boxing, Fighter, Fit

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

  Lennox Lewis

  Pieces, Flesh, Facts

  "The wrap: Dismay at State of the Union address" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

• 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

  Able, Tyson, Fury

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• It's a very interesting fight [Klitchko vs Tyson Fury] because this is the first time [Wladimir] Klitschko is fighting someone as big as him and with longer arms. He will have to be a little bit more aggressive, otherwise the younger guy will have more speed and more energy and I think that may be the difference.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• [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

  Winning, Waiting, Use

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• 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

  Long, Champion, Heavyweights

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

• 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

  Fighting, Ribs, Tyson

• 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

  Fighting, Want, Firsts

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

• 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

  Saws, Tvs, Looks

• There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And there was me, the thinker, the intellectual boxer. So there was something for every fan, if you like. The public could always identify with one of us.

  Lennox Lewis

  Hero, Animal, Intellectual

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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