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.
DEONTAY WILDERWhen one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don’t see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.
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There comes a time when you have to put forth the action and actually see whether you’re really just talking to promote yourself, just to sell yourself, or to build your confidence or build confidence around you… or are you the real deal?
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Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
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I am very comfortable travelling and going into other territories.
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Everybody has their due season. And it’s all about what you do in your season.
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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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I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
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I don’t play boxing.
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Street fight, you just ground and pound ’em. Boxing is totally different.
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I just love boxing. I’m in love with the sport.
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All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it’s difficult to be in his situation.
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I don’t have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.
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The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn’t no punk.
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My right hand is a monster.
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It don’t matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I’m going to fight like heavyweight champions do.
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I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.
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I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
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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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To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it’s going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let’s do it that way.
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When I structured my career, I looked at Muhammad Ali, which is my all-time favorite and an idol of mine, and what he has done for this sport. He was a real-life hero.
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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 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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At the end of the day, I am going for all the belts, so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would live to fight the U.K. guys – even in the U.K.
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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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The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
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I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.
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