Canelo Alvarez Quotes

I've competitively boxed. It's definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.

I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.

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.

This is not a sport for me - I live boxing. I've been boxing since I was seven years old.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

I feel great about the boxing in South Florida.

Featherweight is my division.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

A lot of people don't really understand boxing.

I got the who's who in the boxing world; I've been training with the Lomachenkos, the Terrence Crawfords.

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.