Being from a small farmers’ town, going back and forth to Mexico, hours waiting in the line to cross back home and training for hours, that’s why I represent Mexicali because it means a lot to me. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
A lot of people say I’m not Mexican because I don’t speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it’s at. Mexico’s in my blood, in my DNA. It’s in my kids’ DNA. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
I’ve been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
Dreams are dreams and reality is reality. We have to make the dreams happen. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
One of those chubby kids that would do something athletic and everybody would look at me and say, ‘What the heck? Did that kid just do that?’ That’s the kind of chubby kid I was. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego. Andy Ruiz Jr. Read Quote
