Top 60 Caleb Plant Quotes

I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn’t want to do anything else but box.

I don’t want to get beat – in life, in anything. I’m a very prideful person. My will to win has been with me forever.

I want Caleb Truax. He was calling me out when I was 12-0.

Some fighters are better when there’s no one in the crowd, and some fighters are best when they’re under the gun and the whole world is watching.

Something that I wanted to do since I was a kid, bring a world title to the Bridgestone successfully.

It was a great feeling to be honored by my hometown where it all started. Watching my father get a proclamation for his hard work as well was incredible.

I knew I could grow up to be whatever I wanted to be and my whole life the only thing I wanted to be is a fighter.

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

Boxing is life or death for me. I do not look at this as just a sport, this is my livelihood. If I don’t win, I don’t get to go home, because I’m not going to have a home.

Losing both my daughter and my mother was real painful but it’s made me stronger. Fighting for their memory is a motivating factor for me.

No breaks and no plan B. I’ve just been boxing, day in and day out.

Boxing has always been like a sanctuary for me. It’s been a place that I could go and be somebody.

Boxing has been everything for me as long as I can remember.

Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that’s true, then my tank will forever be full.

Everything that happens in a fight is the same as what happens in life.

Anybody trying to get in the way of what I’m trying to accomplish and be remembered as once I’m not longer here, anybody trying to disrupt that, it’s personal for me.

My whole life, I’ve been hearing, ‘He’s good for a white boy’… My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don’t feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can’t do something.

I’ve always felt I perform best under the brightest lights and the biggest moments.

It’s basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.

I’ve put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.

I’m very excited to bring my world title home to Nashville in my second title defense.

I’m fit all year round and I like the right lifestyle.

Whether it’s fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I’m a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.

I’ve been through everyone’s worst nightmare and I’ve come out the other side.

At a high level there’s always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it’s fake stories or real ones. You’ve got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.

This is not just a job. Boxing is my whole life.

I’ve been the underdog before. It’s a place I like to be.

I was someone who no one would want to be. But when I got to go to the boxing gym, even at a young age, I was somebody who everybody wanted to be.

The oddsmakers can have me as an underdog. I’ve been an underdog my whole life, and I’ve been proving them wrong my whole life. Those are just numbers.

I love where I’m from, but it’s a tough, poverty-stricken area.

My friends, a lot of them have gone to jail, gone to the penitentiary, things of that matter.

Whether it’s boxing or in life, I’ve gotten here by any means necessary.

My head has played a big part and that’s what makes any great champion in any sport or just in life.

People go through things in life where they put a certain amount of work or time in and you feel indestructible.

Jan. 31, 2019 will forever be Caleb ‘Sweethands’ Plant Day!

I am the top guy in the super middleweight division.

I feel like I’m a conqueror. That’s what I do. I conquer things.

I wasn’t happy with what was going on around me, even when I was only 9 years old. I wasn’t happy with the economic situation we were in.

There have been a lot of guys in my position. A guy who doesn’t have a big name on his record and they step up and face the guy.

I don’t know all that I’m searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the time that I just have to keep going.

I’ve got a chip on my shoulder, but that’s something I’ve carried with me my whole life.

There have been some guys who lost before the bell even rang against Canelo.

Champions, no matter what’s going on in their life or even in the gym, at the end of the day when it’s time to do what they do best, they go in there and they block all that out. They block out all the noise, they block out all the ups and downs,and they do the job. And that’s what I’m best at.

I started off doing martial arts, and then I started kick boxing shortly after that.

You don’t become a world champion by training like a world champion – after you win a belt. If you want to become a world champion, long before that you’ve got to walk like one, talk like one, train like one, carry yourself like one. And that means training as hard as you can for every fight.

Any time that a pro fights for his first world title, it’s something that they’ve always dreamed of.

I am a kid who came from nothing.

You can’t learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

I believed in myself and now I’ve been crowned king.

If you look back over my life, there’s been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven’t had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.

I’m more than willing, able and ready to fight Canelo Alvarez on any date.

I don’t have a persona or anything like that that I’m trying to live up to.

The middleweight division has plenty of talent.

We’re not just up here keeping our fingers crossed hoping that things turn out how they should. That’s not how life works. If you want something, then you’ve got to believe it and you’ve got to feel it in your heart. But you got to work for it.

I don’t fold and surrender for nobody. That’s just a fact.

Like I talked about, I’m not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.

My team has done a great job putting me in a position to be at my best on fight night.

The only thing better than proving someone right, is proving somebody wrong.

It wasn’t my intention to get under Canelo’s skin at the first press conference. I think the media makes more of it than we do. We’ve both been in worse scuffles than that.

I just want to win in front of my hometown and win in spectacular fashion. I’ve gotten to perform in many other venues in other states, but it’s going to be a special moment to be able to do that in front of everyone who has known me for the longest.