Chris Arreola Quotes

Chris Arreola

Profession : Boxer

Birth : March 5, 1981

I got to leave everything in the ring. I got to leave everything out there, man.

Chris Arreola

There are those kind of fighters that just go in to get paid. That's not me, man. I have never been that guy.

Chris Arreola

If people have seen me fight, I don't come in to get paid. I come in there to win.

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Vitali Klitschko clobbered me with jabs left and right. I believe he threw the most punches he had thrown in his career against me, and that's because I just kept coming with the pressure.

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I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

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I like punching people and I like being punched, to be honest with you. What other thing could I do, beating people up and getting beat up, and get paid for it?

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I'm my own worst enemy. I like to eat, and when people tell me to do something I do the opposite.

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I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

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I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

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My motivation is to keep fighting, to keep putting food on my family's table, keep making a living off of boxing. That's my motivation.

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I would love to fight someone like Dominic Breazeale next year. Him or the Polish guy, Adam Kownacki. That's more of an entertaining one. I love watching him fight. He smiles while he's fighting and I think that's the coolest thing to watch.

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I only care about myself and my family and this fight I'm gonna win for my family and for myself.

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In the past I would give myself a reason to have an excuse. I wouldn't show up at the gym. I wouldn't do what I'm supposed to do as a professional.

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I feel like I'm a mature fighter, I have what it takes between my ears and in my heart.

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I hate using excuses, I hate doing excuses.

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We do cardio, core strength, lifting - and we train in the mornings, which I hate.

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Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

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