Deontay Wilder Quotes

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

I understand people want to see me get knocked out.

I'm open to a super fight.

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

When I was competing in Muay Thai I used to fight every month.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

If you want street fight, let's go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.

I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

Featherweight is my division.

Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

I could see he was having problems taking my punches. I had no problem taking his.

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.