Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Deontay Wilder
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Deontay Wilder.
Last updated on April 21, 2025.
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.
My right hand is a monster.
To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.
I'm not playing around in 2016.
Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.
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.'
The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.
There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
I've been talking about unifying the division for a long time.
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.
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.
Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.
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.
I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?
I'm always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I'm LeBron James.
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.
I would love to go to England.
I'm definitely an active champion. I'm looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.
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.
When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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.
I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.
I wanted to show the world what Deontay Wilder is all about. I'm a heavyweight, and I'm exciting.
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.
I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.
Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.
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.
I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.
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.
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.
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.
All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it's difficult to be in his situation.
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.
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.
My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.
Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
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.'
We know Fury likes to entertain and promote.
My goal is to unify the division. Whoever's got those belts, that's who I want.
I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.
When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.
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.
God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.
I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.
You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.
I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.
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.
People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.
I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
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.
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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