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 WILDERI don’t know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn’t do it the right way.
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Street fight, you just ground and pound ’em. Boxing is totally different.
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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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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 was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
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Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
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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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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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When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing ‘Rocky IV.’ I am doing the black ‘Rocky.’
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I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
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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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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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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.
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I want to put my name in history. I love history.
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My dream was to play for Alabama – football, basketball.
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