Deontay Wilder 70 Motivating Quotes

Deontay Wilder is an American professional boxer who is also the country’s first world heavyweight champion in nine years. And that nine-year gap was the longest in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. In February 2020, BoxRec ranked him as the world’s second-best active heavyweight, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board ranked him third, and The Ring magazine ranked him fourth.

In addition, at the 2008 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division. After that, he was dubbed “the Bronze Bomber.” He is best known for his devastating punching strength, which he uses to defeat every opponent.

Deontay Wilder has made numerous contributions to the boxing world. Despite multiple ups and downs, he became celebrated in front of his admirers and followers, and the 97 quotations that follow may motivate you to be like him.

1. “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

2. “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

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

4. “I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.”― Deontay Wilder

5. “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

6. “I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.”― Deontay Wilder

7. “My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.”― Deontay Wilder

8. “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

9. “MY GOAL IS TO UNIFY THE DIVISION. WHOEVER’S GOT THOSE BELTS, THAT’S WHO I WANT.”― DEONTAY WILDER

10. “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.”― Deontay Wilder

11. “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

12. “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

13. “Street fight, you just ground and pound ’em. Boxing is totally different.”― Deontay Wilder

14. “To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.”― Deontay Wilder

15. “PEOPLE CAN BE TOO HARSH, ESPECIALLY WITH SOCIAL MEDIA. IT BRINGS A PERSON DOWN.”― DEONTAY WILDER

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

17. “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

18. “When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that – it was a heavenly sound to me.”― Deontay Wilder

19. “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

20. “Everybody has their due season. And it’s all about what you do in your season.”― Deontay Wilder

21. “No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I was not too fond of it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, ‘God, I don’t want to fight no more. I’m tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting’s not going to get me there.’”― Deontay Wilder

22. “I just love boxing. I’m in love with the sport.”― Deontay Wilder

23. “My right hand is a monster.”― Deontay Wilder

24. “I am very comfortable travelling and going into other territories.”― Deontay Wilder

25. “I’m always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I’m LeBron James.”― Deontay Wilder

26. “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

27. “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

28. “You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that’s in the past out.”― Deontay Wilder

29. “All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it’s difficult to be in his situation.”― Deontay Wilder

30. “We know Fury likes to entertain and promote.”― Deontay Wilder

31. “I’m not playing around in 2016.”― Deontay Wilder

32. “I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can’t go back to their children.”― Deontay Wilder

33. “The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.”― Deontay Wilder

34. “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

35. “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

36. “My dream was to play for Alabama – football, basketball.”― Deontay Wilder

37. “Boxing is my true calling. I’ve found my purpose in life.”― Deontay Wilder

38. “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.”― Deontay Wilder

39. “God definitely blessed me with power. I still don’t know the limits of my own power.”― Deontay Wilder

40. “Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I’m getting more dangerous. I’m getting stronger and stronger.”― Deontay Wilder

41. “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

42. “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

43. “I would love to go to England.”― Deontay Wilder

44. “I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT UNIFYING THE DIVISION FOR A LONG TIME.”― DEONTAY WILDER

45. “There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.”― Deontay Wilder

46. “I’m ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?”― Deontay Wilder

47. “I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.”― Deontay Wilder

48. “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

49. “I don’t have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.”― Deontay Wilder

50. “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.”― Deontay Wilder

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

52. “I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.”― Deontay Wilder

53. “I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I’m capable of doing in the ring.”― Deontay Wilder

54. “There’s no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I’m the most athletic heavyweight in the division.”― Deontay Wilder

55. “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

56. “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

57. “I’m definitely an active champion. I’m looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.”― Deontay Wilder

58. “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

59. “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.”― Deontay Wilder

60. “I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don’t see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.”― Deontay Wilder

61. “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

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

63. “Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.”― Deontay Wilder

64. “I’m one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.”― Deontay Wilder

65. “OF COURSE I WANT THE FURYS, OF COURSE I WANT THE JOSHUAS, BUT THE QUESTION IS, DO THEY WANT ME?”― DEONTAY WILDER

66. “I don’t play boxing.”― Deontay Wilder

67. “I will be that guy to change this sport, especially in the heavyweight division. A lot of people have lost interest. I’m the right man for the job… I want to make it bigger and better than it ever have been before.”― Deontay Wilder

68. “The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn’t no punk.”― Deontay Wilder

69. “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

70. “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