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.

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

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

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.

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.

I am very comfortable travelling and going into other territories.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't play boxing.

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.

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.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

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.

If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.

Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.

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.

We knew Stiverne was tough. You've got to give it to him. He's got a tough chin.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama - I love you.

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

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.

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

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