Mikey Garcia Quotes

You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.

When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of your title, and you round up most of the other belts - and you feel you're the best of your generation at the time - nobody can take that away from you.

What I want is to leave this sport as champion. I want to be the only featherweight champion. That's when I'll leave the sport.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

I will become a five-division champion.

That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.

As far as moving to 130, I got tired of waiting for the other champions, none of whom wanted to fight me. I'm hopeful that with the move to 130 lbs. will come better fights, particularly against the other champions, so we can make our dream of becoming undisputed champion.

I want to be the middleweight champion.

All the players in the league, I think, want to play for trophies, want to get trophies.

I dream of getting to the belt. I know I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna be the champion.

I want the belt. I'm focused on the belt, I'm focused on the world championship belt.

I'm the champ that puns the camp! That's what I always wanted. I wanted to be seen as a main eventer, and it's a lot of responsibility now. I feel like I'm gonna deliver on this opportunity. I want to take it and make sure everybody knows that this is why I'm the champ.

Bring the fights on. If I'm going to be the champ, I gotta beat everyone anyway, so what does sitting and waiting and holding my position do?

I'm looking for three belts. I'm looking to do something that's never been done in this sport. I wanna go down to 155. I wanna go up to 185 and take the belt.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

The goal is to be heavyweight champion of the world.

It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.

The only time you will see me content is when everyone is calling me the greatest fighter of all time.

I love boxing, but there's a business side. I don't like a lot of people in the sport.