Top 66 Mikey Garcia Quotes

I traditionally like to be patient, calm and look for openings – try to box for a few rounds until I figure out what the best thing in the ring will be for me.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

I fight for my name. For my dad’s last name to be recognized in the history books of boxing.

I know that at the end of my career I’ll get the credit I deserve.

I’m always the favorite heading into fights. My accomplishments don’t get credit because I’m supposed to win.

You’ve got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

I don’t feel the need to do anything other than what I’ve been doing, beating my opponents, getting some knockouts, keeping the fans coming. I don’t need to do anything other than that.

I know what I’m capable of. My dad, my brother, know what I’m capable of. They’ve seen me in the ring sparring. They know me better than anyone else.

Every fighter has a different agenda. Every promoter has a different agenda for their fighter. Every manager has a different agenda. So things change all the time.

Why take the pay-per-view gamble? I don’t need to do that.

I know people say I could be the next big pay-per-view star. They say that about a lot of fighters. To reach that, it takes a lot. Not just fighting skills, but marketing, good promotion.

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

No other fighter’s doing what I’m doing, no other fighter is daring to do what I’m doing.

I want to make sure I give the fans my best while I’m in my prime.

I make the fight look easy and people haven’t seen the best.

The one time I get butterflies at my fights is during the ring walk, and to get to do that with my home crowd is special, emotional.

We fight smart, fight intelligent, pick our shots, be very smart about how we place our feet. That’s how we win.

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that’s going to be the most valuable for my career.

One loss is not the end of my career.

When I walk into the arena, I get excited and emotional, when I see the fans rise and start cheering. But then I get into the ring and it’s all business for me.

I want to fight the top champions, I want to fight for titles.

Growing up in Oxnard you’re a Cowboys fan, bro. I remember when I was like six, seven years old my cousin gave me a sweatshirt that said ‘Cowboys’ on it and ever since then I said I’m going to support the Cowboys.

I feel I have the power and the skillset to compete in any division up to welterweight.

I really believe in myself. That’s why I keep challenging myself.

I feel that’s what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

I can do a lot of things that other fighters can’t.

I’m not an ‘opponent.’ I don’t believe I should be treated as an opponent.

Errol Spence is a fighter. He wants to hurt you.

There’s always doubters, that’s part of the game.

I don’t think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.

It’s not OK for somebody to push a fighter into a corner and strong-arm him to accept whatever the promoter wants.

My kids are four years apart. They’re constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.

I never dreamt to be headlining a pay-per-view card. That was never a goal.

All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.

It came like a natural thing for me, and I liked it. That’s how my amateur career started. But again, no interest in a future in boxing. I just thought it was like a little pastime, something to do.

If I did a multiple-fight deal, I could probably get more money but it’s not always about the money.

My dad had a third-grade education in Mexico. Third grade. My mom had a fifth-grade education. They were raised in a poor home… They got married and they had their family, but there’s hardly any future.

I think I showed I’m resilient, I’m strong, I can go the distance against a bigger man and still box effectively.

To cement your name, you’ve got to go after the biggest fights.

I’m definitely interested in facing Linares.

I would love to fight anybody at the welterweight limit with a belt.

If I look forward to bigger fights, than the biggest fight for me is Manny Pacquiao.

I think a fight with Errol Spence is easier to make than Lomachenko because of promotional reasons.

I’m never out of shape, never out to hurt my body by drinking or partying.

I don’t have a number set that I’m chasing, but I do believe I’ll be a champion at 140, and again at 147.

As a champion, you always want challenges.

You work hard. You have a dream. You don’t give up.

I’ve had a stellar career.

I think Adrien Broner was at his best. If he wasn’t, I would have knocked him out. He was very motivated, he changed camps and made weight with no issues.

You don’t win a fight by the size and the weight.

I will become a five-division champion.

I want to be great. I want to prove to everybody that I am great.

I want people to look back at my career and say, ‘That guy never backed down from anyone.’

I think I carry the power well at lightweight.

If I want to accomplish what I want, I have to take care of my body.

I want to do things not many have done.

I’ve been able to not only be a fighter, but a thinking fighter, where I can use my insight into the business and politics of the sport to make my decisions.

I could easily be defending my title against top contenders in the Top 10, but if they haven’t been champions or their record’s not perfect, it doesn’t really excite me. It doesn’t motivate me. But that’s why I’m facing guys like Dejan Zlaticanin, Sergey Lipinets, undefeated champions.

I never had a dream to be a boxer.

I’m here to take control of my career and take it to where I believe it should be.

At one time, when I was first starting, when I was first champion, I wanted to be undisputed champion so I could hold all the belts and no one else could say they were champion. Then you realize the boxing business, the politics, get involved and it’s not very likely you can accomplish all that.

It would be a great thing for my legacy to get in the ring with an all-time great.

I’ve been on cruise control with my opponents, even though I fought some very good champions, undefeated champions.

I don’t take easy fights.

I’m about big challenges, big obstacles, and just to show everybody that I’m the best.

I want to give my fans great fights to remember me by.