A biography for Andy Ruiz Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he's the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.”
“I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.”
“When I got knocked down, I got back up.”
“My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.”
“It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard.”
“A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.”
“You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.”
“A lot of people can relate to me.”
“My dreams have come true.”
“My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.”
“A lot of people have underestimated me and I have been a problem for them inside the ring.”
“With my Mom and Dad, we always had everything that we needed, but not everything that we wanted. I am going to get my parents what they want, especially my Mom.”
“I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.”
“I'm willing to die in the ring.”
“The physique will show in the punches.”
“Me becoming the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, it's a blessing.”
“People that I fight, they can tell you that I'm different and I'm hard to get to.”
“Anthony Joshua, I'm pretty sure he's underestimating me, man.”
“It's hard to criticise a fighter when you're not in the ring doing what we do.”
“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.”