Pete Burns Quotes

Although there's been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I'm my own Tyson. I'm Tyson Fury. I ain't trying to be anybody else.

If I want to do something like the Batman mask, I just do it. I was like this all the time; I think nobody can change me.

You need to be your own individual.

I am definitely an individual.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

I'm just going to do what I do and be who I am.

I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. I came to the conclusion - I had to at such a young age - if no one was going to be like me, then I just have to own it. If I can't be like everyone else, then I might as well just own who I am.

I'm totally myself.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

With all due respect to Coach O'Brien and Coach Godsey, I've told them I'm going to be me.