Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

If I can't beat DeLuca, how can I say I want to fight the elite of the sport, rematch Errol Spence or fight Terence Crawford? There's no point and I don't have the right to call for world titles. No - I have to win.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

I do think Wilder can be a household name in America. He is a good fighter, and he has knockout power and has knockout potential, which is what you need as a heavyweight.

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in the same light as him, now I'm fighting him.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.

Miocic has that knockout punch. I was completely dizzy a few moments when we fought.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

Everyone in boxing knows that I am a big guy.

At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything's possible.

I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.

So I plan to become one of the few to beat Manny Pacquiao and also become one of the legends.

I think Mark Hunt just has that knockout power, and that's pretty much it.

I want to shock the world, and I'm going to do that through boxing.

Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I really believe in my hands and my power to knock people out, and I will try to keep looking for that, for knockouts.

The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.

Shawn Porter is a good fighter, but he hasn't accomplished nearly as much as Danny Garcia has accomplished or beat the fighters who he has beat.

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.

My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.

When you start boxing when you're 7 years old, that's your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.

I can take over boxing with a win over Pacquiao.