Andy Ruiz Jr. Quotes

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

I like to move a lot and throw some hard punches.

My boy always wants to play football, but I have to hide the balls. I lock them in a bedroom; otherwise, he will just kick them all night!

I love to do kung fu - it gives me energy.

My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Fitness is also something I have worked on, especially because I know I have to bowl a lot more if I want to play for the country.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.