Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Miguel Cotto

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Puerto Rican athlete Miguel Cotto.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He is a multiple-time world champion, and the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes, from light welterweight to middleweight. In 2007 and 2009, he reached a peak active pound for pound ranking of seventh by The Ring magazine. Cotto started out his career as a hard-hitting pressure fighter, but evolved over the years into a more refined boxer-puncher as he moved up in weight.

Puerto Rican - Athlete | Born: October 29, 1980

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Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.

Miguel Cotto

I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more.

Miguel Cotto

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

Miguel Cotto

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Miguel Cotto

My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.

Miguel Cotto

I train every day for 3 to 4 and a half hours.

Miguel Cotto

I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living.

Miguel Cotto

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

Miguel Cotto

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

Miguel Cotto

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

Miguel Cotto

Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.

Miguel Cotto

All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.

Miguel Cotto

I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.

Miguel Cotto

I don't want to be named myself as one of the elite boxers of Puerto Rico. That's for the fans and for the people that know about boxing. I just want to do my job the best I can, and I am going to do that the rest of my career.

Miguel Cotto

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

Miguel Cotto

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

Miguel Cotto

After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.

Miguel Cotto

Daniel Geale is the next chapter in my career. After I get through him, I can talk about what comes next.

Miguel Cotto

We as fighters always want to fight the best possible opponents and the best fights. We want the fans and media to be excited about the fights that we have. I now believe that this is a big fight and people want to see it, I'm not sure that was the case a few years back.

Miguel Cotto

Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Miguel Cotto

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