Boxing is my true calling. I’ve found my purpose in life.
DEONTAY WILDERI 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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I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.
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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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I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.
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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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I’m ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?
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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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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’m not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.
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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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This 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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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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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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Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
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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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God definitely blessed me with power. I still don’t know the limits of my own power.
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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.
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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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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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There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
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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 was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
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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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To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.
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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 a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there’s more to gain from this.
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I’m not going nowhere, no matter who I fight.
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