Top 57 Quotes & Sayings by Nonito Donaire
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I love my wife.
People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.
The best feeling is to win by knockout.
Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.
All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.
I was always into cartoons and animation.
I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.
I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.
With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.
As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.
A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.
I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.
I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.
My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.
Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.
As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.
Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
In school I was pretty fast.
The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.
For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.
I have a lot of respect for Mexico.
Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.
If there's a best, I want to fight them.
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"
I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.
Always push beyond what you can do.
I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.
My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.
He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.
I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.
Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.
I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.
I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.
Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.
We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.
Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.
I believe that he's a boring fighter.
He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.
He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.
I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.
Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.
Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.
I'm training everyday, even though I should be resting.
You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.
If you try your best, you can always be better.
I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.
If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.
Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.
I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.
Confident fighters are dangerous fighters. I know that. But there other fighters who said before a fight they were stronger than me, hit harder, were going to knock me out. Walters is a good champion but really how many quality fights has he been in compared to where I have been in my career? We both have speed, we both have power. It's an explosive fight. This is going to end in a knockout. I will go into the ring and do my best.
When you do your best, there is no impossibility.
He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.
As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.
I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.
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