Mikey Garcia Quotes

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

Besides working out for nearly six hours a day, I am also learning different forms of martial arts.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.

I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

When I trained for 'Creed,' I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.

I have experience of boxing. I know what it is like to be hit. Half my life is boxing. I start fighting when I am 16.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.

I have fun when I fight, and I am going to have a lot of crazy moves.

I've been working on my power, obviously I do my strength work, I'm learning the technical things as well.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

I've been boxing for a while now, and I probably could fight a little bit if I wanted to.