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.

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

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

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.

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.'

God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like 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.'

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

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?

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

My right hand is a monster.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

We know Fury likes to entertain and promote.

I'm not playing around in 2016.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I would love to go to England.

I've been talking about unifying the division for a long time.

There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.

To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.

I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?

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 don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.

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.

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

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

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.

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.

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.