Andy Ruiz Jr. Quotes

Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I'm home.

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

When I was competing in Muay Thai I used to fight every month.

When you're in the ring, you're ready to do your thing, but in a relaxed state.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

It's flattering to be linked with clubs, the rumours give me confidence but I just try to do my best every game.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.

Trash talk is not my thing. I believe I have other weapons to make a fight get booked.

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.

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

The difference between me and David Haye is that I want to be a fighter, he hates it, but he has to fight, remember that.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

I could see he was having problems taking my punches. I had no problem taking his.

I think really one of the hardest things for me always was just the walk to the ring.

It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.