Ariel Helwani Quotes

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.

We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

If I beat Canelo Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, I wake up the next day the king of New York and the new face of boxing.

Canelo is the number one in Mexico, a country known for great fighters. He is very special.

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

If, in 10 years, or 20 or 30 years, you sit down with your friends and talk about boxing, you need to remember my name.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

When I structured my career, I looked at Muhammad Ali, which is my all-time favorite and an idol of mine, and what he has done for this sport. He was a real-life hero.

I just want to leave a mark on the sport of boxing so people talk about me like they talk about the other great champions before me. That's my goal before I retire.

I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Pacman will still go down as one of boxing's all-time greats.

People are always going to say, 'Who's he beat? He's only beat Cowboy.' So what you're trying to tell me is Cowboy is a nobody? Cowboy will be remembered as one of the greatest fighters of all time. And I beat him in one round.

I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

Being a household name throughout boxing, that matters to me.

No brawler in boxing is more crowd-pleasing than Arturo Gatti.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Pacquiao earned the right to go out how he wants to go out. He had fought everybody there is to fight - when they was there to fight. He fought all the top names. Eight-division champion. He accomplished everything there is to do in the sport of boxing.

They don't make them like Trevor Wittman anymore.