A biography for Andy Ruiz Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone has a plan until they get hit.”
“I'm ready for Anthony Joshua. Hopefully he's overlooking me, thinking I'll be a piece of cake. It's a whole different ballgame when they're in the ring with me. Once they see the speed and accuracy I have, I know I will shock him a lot.”
“Ever since I won the world title I've been getting so much love from my people, from a lot of different people. But I know the hunger remains there because I don't want to let my people down or my kids down.”
“I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.”
“I respect Muhammad Ali... he was the greatest, he was the best.”
“I was six years old when I first went into a gym.”
“At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.”
“My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.”
“I try to prove everybody wrong and those who underestimate me, that's why I train hard.”
“I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.”
“I've been an underdog my whole life with the shape that I have and the way that I look. But once I get in the ring it's a whole different ball game.”
“People need to understand that I came this far being chubby and all that. Imagine how far I could go actually being in good shape and looking good.”
“I'm just a little-big kid with a dream.”
“A lot of people underestimated me, and I'm used to that.”
“In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.”
“Unfortunately, when you're learning on the job, things can go wrong.”
“All fighters put their lives on the line.”
“I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.”