Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Demetrius Andrade

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Demetrius Andrade

Demetrius Cesar Andrade is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO middleweight title since 2018, and previously the WBA (Regular) and WBO light middleweight titles between 2013 and 2017. As an amateur he won the U.S. national championships and Golden Gloves twice each, a gold medal at the 2007 World Championships, and represented the U.S. at the 2008 Olympics; all in the welterweight division.

People might not know much about Akavov, but this is a guy who went overseas and gave Billy Joe Saunders absolute hell. Most people thought that he should have won the fight.
There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I've been very vocal about it.
I'm a good fighter. You can't keep me hidden for too long. — © Demetrius Andrade
I'm a good fighter. You can't keep me hidden for too long.
I don't got time to sit and wait for guys like Canelo.
Canelo, let's get it on. I've been beating these guys. Where's Canelo? Where's Triple G?
I'm a bad man!
Golovkin went through a period where nobody wanted to fight him. I am that guy now - the man nobody wants to fight.
Unlike GGG, who just boxed Steve Rolls who was ranked about 81 in the world, I'm fighting real guys.
Ask anybody who has ever sent over a contract over to my team and they'll tell you that we get back to people with a response very quickly.
Lara always tells people that he beat me in the amateurs. I lost to him in international competition when I was just 17 years old. In that fight, he ran around as usual. I thought I had really won that fight.
Let's give the fans what they want and deserve to see.
I am no fool.
That's all we're looking to do, make great fights, baby. That's it. And may the best man win. — © Demetrius Andrade
That's all we're looking to do, make great fights, baby. That's it. And may the best man win.
The boxing world knows I'm the baddest man out there, but not having the right promotion behind me putting me out there has hurt me and that's why I've made the changes, and Matchroom and DAZN know what I can bring and they can move me to the next level.
Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.
Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.
I'm the best in the world.
I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.
Who cares about GGG-Canelo III? Honestly, who cares?
We can go down the list... I match up with anybody out there.
Everyone says, 'What does Demetrius Andrade bring to the table?' Besides being the best American middleweight, and one of the top three middleweights in the world, everyone knows who I am and they know how good I am.
I am the best out here.
We are fighting tough guys to get it on whereas Canelo and GGG have been cherry-picking. They can do that with the profile they have. It's just business. I'm not upset about it because my time will come when I walk in with one belt and walk out with four.
People want to see me fight.
I stay in the gym consistently.
With everything going on with COVID, you don't know what's going to happen.
Fighting at Madison Square Garden, where so many great fighters have fought is a true honor, and something I have dreamt about my entire life.
Look at me: The guys I fight, they're in their primes. Canelo is out there fighting guys on their way out.
For Canelo to call me boring, I mean, is he serious with that? I mean, I'm boring but Rocky Fielding is really exciting. Yeah, sure Canelo. Liam Smith was so exciting. Everybody couldn't wait for that.
I didn't look past Sulecki. I just knew I was going to beat him.
I'm the best out there.
At the end of the day, I just need to keep winning.
Money talks. When you have the financing behind you, you can make deals.
Not a lot of people want to step up and fight me, so thanks to Fox for that. I appreciate that. He's going to help make me a superstar, so thank you, Alantez Fox.
My father has been my coach ever since I was small, so I am always going to look to him first.
When I get into the ring I need to show what I can do, not tell you what I'm gonna do.
I want all the top guys, all the belts.
I want to keep active. — © Demetrius Andrade
I want to keep active.
I'm just ready to be where I need to be, where I deserve to be, and that's on the top.
Akavov moved, he used the ring real well.
My job is to win.
I don't want to fight the bottom guys.
I will not turn down a Canelo fight. I won't sell myself short, but I will not turn down a Canelo fight.
I may not be fighting the most popular guys like Canelo or GGG. But I am fighting real fighters, tough guys who want to prove that they belong and be world champions.
I just work hard and do what I've got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.
I don't slack in my punches.
It's not something I wanted to do, go overseas, but it was something that had to be done.
I can talk the talk and walk the walk. — © Demetrius Andrade
I can talk the talk and walk the walk.
All great legends and all Hall of Fame fighters have their storylines.
This is why we're in fighting. It's a business. That's what we're in.
I definitely want to fight Golovkin.
All I can do is just keep destroying the top 15.
I'm trying to give the fans fights they want to see.
If the crowd wants me to go out there and bang out - and that's not something that I do - then they need to go watch somebody else.
A belt doesn't identify me.
If you think I'm a walk in the park, come walk in this park and see how easy it is.
Every fight is going to bring something different out of you.
GGG is known for his knockouts. I knock out people, too, but I'm a better boxer than him.
That's where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.
Everybody knows the work that I've put in.
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