Chris Arreola

“I'm not in the sport to make money, but that's a big plus.”

“I'm a young 32, but I want to do this only so long, so that when I'm 37-38, people can understand what I'm saying when I talk to them.”

“I'm in the boxing game to be a champion. That's why I'm in boxing.”

“Every fight has pressure. Because, if you don't win, you're not getting paid as much the next fight.”

“I'm a finisher. I'm a shark, and if I see blood, I'm gonna finish you.”

“People really haven't seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.”

“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.”

“Not only am I at a decent fighting weight already, I don't let myself balloon anymore. I let myself get up to 280, 290 before. I can't believe I let myself do that.”

“I hate using excuses, I hate doing excuses.”

“Us Mexicans - we love boxing.”

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

“I'm a Mexican fighter. I just like fighting. I like staying in the pocket.”

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

“The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.”

“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.”

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