Quotes from Andy Ruiz Jr.

I'm not scared of Joseph Parker or any other fighter.

We all have good days and bad days.

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.

I never look past an opponent that I have.

A lot of people saying that I'm not training, that I'm not taking it serious. Come on, I got all these belts. There's a lot of responsibilities to this.

I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.

I have two friends, who have died from this boxing game, and it scares me, but I feel I was made for this.

I still respect Anthony Joshua and I'm a big fan of what he did in boxing.

My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

I wanna be a legend, I wanna be in the world books of records.

Training at altitude took two weeks to get used to.

At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.

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.

It's hard to criticise a fighter when you're not in the ring doing what we do.

All fighters put their lives on the line.

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.

The physique will show in the punches.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

I'd love to fight Wilder. They say everyone is scared of him, I'm not scared of nobody.

It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard.

My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.

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.