117 Quotes by Danny Garcia

My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.

The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

I was ready to move up a weight class, but I can still make 140. If I'm back in the ring in the summertime I know I can make 140 with the heat. I've always been disciplined so it's no problem for me.

Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

It was terrible, and I even told the police officer when I saw him heading down, I said, 'Where are you going? Why don't you stay here and just wait for animal control?' And he said, 'I'm just going to go and take a look.' He didn't say he was going to go and shoot him, and he didn't shoot him; it was another policeman that came and actually shot him,

I never thought I'd be fighting him. I always looked up to him.

A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.