100 Quotes by Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.

When you fight the best and then you have to face someone who is supposedly easy to beat, that's when you take your eye off the ball and the defeats begin.

I can fight at both 135 pounds and 140. I want to lose both my titles in the ring.

I am popular at home, I am popular everywhere.

I've never been booed in my hometown.

My father, Rodolfo, worked as a train conductor and that's how we came to live in the railway car. The Government owned it, and we paid rent on it. Back then I would wake up at 4 in the morning and run through the streets, selling newspapers. I'd scream out, 'Sol, Debate, Noreste.' Those were the papers I sold.

Other great fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali have fallen to the canvas. Why not Julio Cesar Chavez?

I want 100 victories, not just 100 fights.

I told my mother I was going to become a world champion and buy her a home.

I don't live for publicity or glory.