Deontay Wilder

I wanted to go from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Football was a major thing down there.

You saw it.

You saw the school spirit, how people would rally up when times would come, when the games come, especially when you're having rivals.

That would be crazy.

You got so many crazy stories from people shooting people, from them vandalizing people's properties and different things about it just because...

of this, you know, being the school spirit and the football program.

So I knew I had to go to college for all that, but I knew boxing, that was only the school of hard knocks right there.

You know, and I graduated from that school.

You know, I live it.

And I just knew that I didn't have to go to school for that.

So I told him that I should start boxing.

He thought it was a great idea because, you know, I always stayed in a good fight.

I never looked for trouble, but trouble always found me.

You know, and people always thought they could pick with me.

And, you know, because I was, you know, when you're raised poor and you look poor, you look like you're vulnerable.

You're very vulnerable to people's eyes, especially bullies, until the bully get bullied.

And they don't understand.

It's just like with my power, just like in the heavyweight division now.

I'm small frame, but I have more power than any of them.