Training at altitude took two weeks to get used to.
— Andy Ruiz Jr.
I'm not scared of Joseph Parker or any other fighter.
Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.
A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.
All fighters put their lives on the line.
A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.
I'd love to fight Wilder. They say everyone is scared of him, I'm not scared of nobody.
A lot of people underestimated me, and I'm used to that.
My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.
With my Mom and Dad, we always had everything that we needed, but not everything that we wanted. I am going to get my parents what they want, especially my Mom.
You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.
When I fought Joseph Parker it was for the WBO world title and they robbed my fight.
I was six years old when I first went into a gym.
Mom, I love you. I love you, and our lives are gonna change. We don't have to struggle no more.
I'd love to be at 250, 255, but just be fit and be solid.
My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.
My whole life people underrated me.
In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.
I never look past an opponent that I have.
I still respect Anthony Joshua and I'm a big fan of what he did in boxing.
I was fighting men at age 10.
I'm willing to die in the ring.
I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.
I'm ready for Anthony Joshua. Hopefully he's overlooking me, thinking I'll be a piece of cake. It's a whole different ballgame when they're in the ring with me. Once they see the speed and accuracy I have, I know I will shock him a lot.
I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.
People who say I'm not focused, they're crazy.
I love The Rock.
A lot of stuff, all the fast food, the cheap food, the dollar menu - I had to cut all that off.
I had been through a big roller-coaster through my whole career.
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.
Whaddya know? I'm the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.
First I tried karate but I didn't like it because it was boring. There was no action like you see in the movies.
I love all the Imperial Valley, man.
In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.
At the end of the day it's our business to promote the fight however possible.
If I win, it sends out a powerful message about the strength of Mexican people.
Ever since I won the world title I've been getting so much love from my people, from a lot of different people. But I know the hunger remains there because I don't want to let my people down or my kids down.
I have two friends, who have died from this boxing game, and it scares me, but I feel I was made for this.
Being from a small farmers' town, going back and forth to Mexico, hours waiting in the line to cross back home and training for hours, that's why I represent Mexicali because it means a lot to me.
You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.
Styles make fights.
My dad's been giving me Snickers since I was six years old. Since I first turned amateur, my dad's been giving it to me.
Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.
People that I fight, they can tell you that I'm different and I'm hard to get to.
I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.
I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.
One of those chubby kids that would do something athletic and everybody would look at me and say, 'What the heck? Did that kid just do that?' That's the kind of chubby kid I was.
I don't want to just have 15 minutes of fame. I want it to last.
I'm not trying to be with six-pack abs and big muscles and all that. None of that, you know.
I've been bullied a few times in school.
