Deontay Wilder Quotes

The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

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

It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.

Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

One of my short films was about a boxer.

Boxing has been very, very good to me.

It would be an honour to knock out Botha.

What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

That works for me, that's fine, but I don't need a belt to fight Dominic Breazeale. If he wants it, he can get it.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

Maybe Tony Bellew is my Benn-Eubank.

I'm one of those heavyweights who'd like to fight as often as possible.

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

I want to be a superstar in the junior middleweight division.

In the heavyweight division, you can't afford to make a mistake.

If I wanted to fight for the title, I would fight at around 240.

It makes me very, very happy to get someone a world title shot, which I've done with a few fighters, or a European title shot or a British title, and I see them lift that belt above their waist and they come to me and say 'Thanks Ricky. I've just paid my mortgage off with that.' That's what its all about.

Apart from me, Tyson Fury, and Deontay Wilder, you can't sell out Wembley.

Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.

I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.

Fighting in Germany, Wladimir Klitschko makes so much money for everyone.