Going to Russia is going to be nothing for me. I’m going to treat it like it’s the U.S. because, at the end of the day, it’s one man, one ring.
DEONTAY WILDERPeople who know me know that if I say I’m going to do something, I’m doing it. I am hungry. I am determined.
More Deontay Wilder Quotes
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I don’t see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.
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Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don’t feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don’t really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don’t care.
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There’s no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I’m the most athletic heavyweight in the division.
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When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that – it was a heavenly sound to me.
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To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.
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My goal is to unify the division. Whoever’s got those belts, that’s who I want.
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I’m one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.
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I’m not playing around in 2016.
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I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.
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It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.
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I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt – and the key word is ‘try’ – I’m ready to give them that opportunity.
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I’m ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?
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When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent’s head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.
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This is no game. You get up in there, and you take some punches. You risk your life, and then let me see you talk then. That’s why I don’t respect people who criticize fighters.
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I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.
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