Johnny Gargano Quotes

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

I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

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

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

I got into boxing because I wanted to fight Tyson.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

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.

I've been boxing since I was 7 years old.

I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer.

I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.

I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.

Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

It's always been my goal to fight the best fighters out there, and I look at Amir Khan as one of the top fighters in my division.

I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.

My dad had his dream of being a champion boxing trainer. He accomplished that.

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.