Deontay Wilder

“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.”

“Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.”

“When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.”

“I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.”

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