My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.
DEONTAY WILDERThis is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting – the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.
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I will be that guy to change this sport, especially in the heavyweight division. A lot of people have lost interest. I’m the right man for the job… I want to make it bigger and better than it ever have been before.
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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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People who know me know that if I say I’m going to do something, I’m doing it. I am hungry. I am determined.
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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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It’s a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there’s more to gain from this.
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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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Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
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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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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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God definitely blessed me with power. I still don’t know the limits of my own power.
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When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you’ve got a dangerous man on your hands.
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My right hand is a monster.
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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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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 can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
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Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.
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I’m ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?
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I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I’m capable of doing in the ring.
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When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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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 want to put my name in history. I love history.
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I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.
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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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Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I’m going to get you, I’m going to get you.
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I 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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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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