Quotes by Deontay Wilder - Page 2

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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Capable
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Craziest
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Hardest Part
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I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritionist - and I brought them on board.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Chef
Nutritionist
Time Long Long Time
Board
Wanting
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Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Preachers
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I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Jealous
Looking Forward
Olympics
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Quiet
Understood
Fights
Picked
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Travel
Legacy
Build
Road
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Fury
Establish
Foremost
Worldwide
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Once I knock Szpilka out, I want all the Polish fans to come on the 'Bronze Bomber' train as I bring the heavyweight division back to the top.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Bronze
Division
Bomber
Heavyweight
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I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Good Job
Beating
Congratulate
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Russia
Man Me Day
Ring
Man End Of The Day Me
End Of The Day
Treat
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This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Daughter
Opportunity
Men
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Grown Man
Sweetest
Man Me Words
Motivates
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Department
Division
Heavyweight
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Belts
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If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Belts
Foolish
Fury
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Muhammad
Ali
Idol
Structured
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Criticize
Life Respect Your
Life Respect Me
Fighters
Punches
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Mercy
Pity
Ring
Hurting
Opponent
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Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Stay Focused
Wilder
Absolute
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People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reason. I feel like God has a plan for me in this sport. That's how I have came up this fast.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Blessed
God Has A Plan
No Reason
God Power Me
Came
Fast
Sport
Far
Plan
Realize
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Boxing
Forever
Passion
Life Love Myself
Opens
Sets
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Patience
Being Human
Blessing
Hardest
Sometimes
Things
Now
Being
Own
Miss
Out
Human
Wait
Having
Rush
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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.'
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Black
Environment
Ready
Russia
Situation
Adapt
Crying
Rocky
Start
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Good Family
Middle Class
Surroundings
Class Family
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Division
Belt
Defend
Title
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Division
Right Man
Heavyweight
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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.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Fatigue
Legs
Skinny
Badly
Me Care Way
Laid
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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?
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Forth
Promote
Real Deal
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I'm the guy who has everything it takes to be heavyweight champion of the world. It's not just about being great inside the ring: it's about being able to do great things outside of the ring. Not everyone has that. I love to be out there with the people.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Great Things
Ring
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
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I still think about the first time I met Lennox Lewis, and he took the time out to talk to me, and he showed me different techniques. I'll never forget. Lennox was one of those guys that set the standard. He's a hard act to follow. But I love a challenge.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Never Forget
Love Time Me
Lewis
Standard
Techniques
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My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Neighborhood
Typical
Upbringing
Family Me Parents
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I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.' There's nothing like setting goals and watching yourself get there, accomplishing that goal and putting your name to a part of history.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Grandfather
Setting
Setting Goals
Accomplishing
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I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think about. I think about the preparation I've trained for, and I try to execute. And guys can't stand up to the power. I've been blessed with that, and it's something that can't be taught.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Preparation
Rely
Execute
Right Hand
Stand Up
Trained
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You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida... We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Pregnancy
Pray
Pray For
Terminate
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No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'
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Sky
Fights
Victor
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I don't have to build up strength; I have been blessed with it. I do lift weights and train hard, but I am a very special individual - a very special man with very special talent and very special power. I can get any man - any man - out of there in a matter of seconds. That is the thing I love about myself.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Blessed
Individual
Seconds
Special
Talent
Train
Build
Lift
Weights
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Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Boxing
Breathe
Lifestyle
Obsessed
Life Love I Am
Accordingly
Sport
Seriously
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When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but had to go to junior college first to get my GPA up. I did a half-year of junior college, then dropped out and had my daughter. College was always an opportunity to go back. But she, my daughter, was my support. I gave up everything for her.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Alabama
Dropped
Junior
Junior College
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When I was up in college, I had a friend, and he was the only guy who knew I wasn't going to be able to attend school no more because I had a child on the way. I remember we was right at the lunch table. I was like, 'Man, I should start boxing.' I felt like every fighter that's on TV made a lot of money. I was like, 'You gotta make a lot of money.'
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Boxing
Lunch
Attend
Gotta
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