He believes the key to a long career in boxing is to minimize the amount of times one gets hit.

“my dad the first thing my dad taught me the first day I went in the gym the less you get hit the longer you last so I took that all throughout life and it panned out”

He believes the discipline he learned from his chores as a young athlete was essential to building his boxing career.

“I had to do my chores. I had to, you know, build get my grades up, you know, I'm getting my C minuses. So, I'm getting I'm getting D's now. I'm getting B's. I'm coming up. Teachers are writing nice letters back at home about how I'm improving all that crap. So, yeah, he loved that stuff.”

He believes that being a successful professional boxer requires a mindset that is eighty percent mental, demanding significant internal fortitude and courage.

“the biggest part of being able to be a great fire is is this and a lot of people don't realize that or don't know that it is in my opinion i don't know 70 80 mental”

Tony Bellew describes professional boxing as a brutal and demanding business rather than just a sport.

“professional boxing is a brutal horrible business it's not a sport it's literally a way of life you don't live professional boxing the way it needs to be lived you will get found out every single time and it will leave you in a bad way”

He believes that the secret to success in boxing is work ethic and fitness rather than just innate talent.

“I never went into the ring and boxed somebody who was fitter than me because the way I looked at it was was you can be taller, you can be more awkward, have an awkward style, you can punch harder, but you cannot outwill me. Like my fitness I control my fitness.”