Andy Ruiz Jr. Quotes

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

Boxing is a noble sport.

Give me the action. I come from a place of fighters. My father was a fighter, a boxer, and Penny loves to box. So give it to me until my body won't do it anymore. Bring it on.

People say I don't punch hard, but I say, 'Get in the ring with me and see if it hurts.'

I have a love for boxing.

I've been battle-tested inside the ring and outside the ring.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge.

I'm oddly comfortable in the ring.

I'm pretty sure I could beat Tyron Woodley. Nothing against him.