Callum Smith Quotes

When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.

I've won a world title and then lost it to the top boxer on the planet.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

I am thrilled to participate in the World Boxing Super Series, the Champions League of boxing.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.

Even when the heavyweight champion was a fighter of limited ability, he was still the heavyweight champion of the world.

I've won the British title and although it would be nice to win it outright, I want to push on to the next level and if the opportunity to fight for the European or even a world title comes up, I will take it.

Amir Khan is a great fighter, I have a lot of respect for him.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world champion. But I've always been my own man.

My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

Winning the World title is much more important to me than fighting Groves - but I do believe I have got the beating of him style-wise if it comes off.

Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.

My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.