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

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

Time Patience Want

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

Deontay Wilder

Up T Sure

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

Deontay Wilder

Your You Very

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

Deontay Wilder

You Us UN

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

Time Wanting Want

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

Car Whether Way

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

Men Art You

Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you.

Deontay Wilder

Funny You Up

I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.

Deontay Wilder

Business Weights Weight

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

Power God Wit

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

Would Through Them

I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

Deontay Wilder

Time Want Very

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

Deontay Wilder

Weight Weigh USC

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

Travel Way Want

People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.

Deontay Wilder

Wit Too T

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

Use Us Treat

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

Love Great World

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.

Deontay Wilder

Anger Your You

My right hand is a monster.

Deontay Wilder

T Right Rig

Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?

Deontay Wilder

Want T Question

Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.

Deontay Wilder

I don't know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn't do it the right way.

Deontay Wilder

I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.

Deontay Wilder

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

I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

Deontay Wilder

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

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

All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it's difficult to be in his situation.

Deontay Wilder

I'm not going nowhere, no matter who I fight.

Deontay Wilder

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

I'm definitely an active champion. I'm looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.

Deontay Wilder

My goal is to unify the division. Whoever's got those belts, that's who I want.

Deontay Wilder

I wanted to show the world what Deontay Wilder is all about. I'm a heavyweight, and I'm exciting.

Deontay Wilder

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

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

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

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

I'm always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I'm LeBron James.

Deontay Wilder

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

Deontay Wilder

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.

Deontay Wilder

We know Fury likes to entertain and promote.

Deontay Wilder

I'm not playing around in 2016.

Deontay Wilder

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.

Deontay Wilder

The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.

Deontay Wilder

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

Deontay Wilder

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

Deontay Wilder

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

My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.

Deontay Wilder

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

Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.

Deontay Wilder