Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American boxer Danny Garcia.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Danny Óscar Garcia is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, Ring magazine and lineal light welterweight titles between 2012 and 2015, and the WBC welterweight title from 2016 to 2017. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active welterweight by The Ring, seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and eighth by BoxRec.
It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter; we have a great history of fighters.
I'd go around Philadelphia and everybody still loved me. Until the Eagles won, I was the only champ they had.
I hate to say this, but sometimes you need a wake-up call.
I've been in this position many times and I know it's these so-called easy fights that can be harder than the toughest ones.
I don't care what people think, what people say.
I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.
No fighter has more fundamentals and overall skill than Danny Garcia.
A lot of people don't have people to tell them, 'You're the best, and nobody can beat you.' You gotta have a lot of confidence to tell your fighter that. And you have to make a fighter believe he's the best to be the best.
This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.
I've been in a lot of big fights, so I can't psyche myself out, like, 'Oh, this is a big fight.'
I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.
I don't think about the money when I'm training.
I'm happy for Tevin Farmer, I'm happy for everybody from Philly who's doing their thing.
It would be a dream come true to end Manny's career, just like I ended Erik Morales' career. It would be that same type of feeling. Pacquiao is a global superstar, and once I beat him, I'll be the new pay-per-view superstar.
I know how the game works. You want to fight who you want to fight. And it never happens.
I've never ducked no one.
I always support Philly.
A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.
The WBC title belongs to me.
I know how to control the distance, I know how to counter real good.
I feel like I'm the Tim Duncan of boxing.
I never call anyone out.
I will take anyone at 147.
When I was a little kid I was embarrassed to tell people I had six toes, and I still do have six toes.
Manny Pacquiao, Errol Spence or anybody who wants to fight me, I'm here. Let's get it on.
People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.
It's an exciting feeling going to Puerto Rico. To go back where my dad was born, my bloodline, it means a lot to me to reach out to my fans in Puerto Rico.
I've never picked any of my opponents - from Amir Khan to Lucas Matthysse to Keith Thurman to Lamont Peterson.
At the end of the day, we fight for the legacy, but you don't want to be just a fighter with legacy with no money.
I know that Shawn Porter is not on my level.
My job is to fight whoever they put in front of me.
My whole career has been based on pressure. When I don't have it, it feels weird sometimes.
Philly is old-school.
You can't hit what you can't see.
Somebody might try to steal your backpack, somebody might throw bread at you in the lunchroom. I was the kind of kid that if you did that, I wanted to fight.
Pacquiao needs a fighter like me to sell. Our styles match up better than anyone else's styles in the welterweight division. It would be a great fight.
I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.
I love it here in Puerto Rico. I love the weather and the beautiful people. Everything about the culture is like where I grew up in Philadelphia.
We want all the big fights.
I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.
Every fighter dreams of a big payday. That's my dream.
I have the Puerto Rico power and the Philadelphia toughness and Philadelphia skills.
We don't fight for free.
I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss, or more than a couple of losses.
I've been an Eagles fan since I was a little kid.
I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.
I've got to make sure I take care of business and look impressive.
I'm a father now. I got to man up and be the best father I can be, which means I have to fight smarter. I can't take a lot of unnecessary punishment. I got to protect my future, and my child's future.
I'm a fighter. That's what I do.
Garcia name is going to be remembered in the boxing game for a long time.
Philadelphia made me who I am.
I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.
I want to be the best fighter in the sport.
In basketball and football I would cry. I didn't understood why all my teammates weren't good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.
I've been to a lot of different cities around the world. People in Philly are a lot different... We're raised a little more street-smart. We're raised a little tougher. We're raised to never back down and to hold our ground.
A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.
My job is to fight and that's what I do.
I'm going to be one of the best fighters coming out of Philadelphia and one of the best Latino fighters who's ever done it.
I know what I can do, I know who I am. I just stay in my own lane.
Any big names out there that want to fight Danny Garcia, let's get it on.