A biography for Danny Garciahasn’t been written yet.
“Manny Pacquiao, Errol Spence or anybody who wants to fight me, I'm here. Let's get it on.”
“In basketball and football I would cry. I didn't understood why all my teammates weren't good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.”
“I give blood, sweat and tears inside the ring and I'm never going to stop working.”
“You have to have people around you that know what makes you happy and know what makes you mad. I have the right people around me.”
“Families stick together.”
“I love it here in Puerto Rico. I love the weather and the beautiful people. Everything about the culture is like where I grew up in Philadelphia.”
“When I used to fight in the amateurs, guys wouldn't show up for the finals and I won the tournament. They wouldn't call my name when it was time to get the trophy. They called everyone else's name. Believe me, you remember things like that. I'd say there was disrespect there. It's followed me into the pros.”
“I've never picked any of my opponents - from Amir Khan to Lucas Matthysse to Keith Thurman to Lamont Peterson.”
“I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.”
“I want to be the best fighter in the sport.”
“We don't fight for free.”
“I've been to a lot of different cities around the world. People in Philly are a lot different... We're raised a little more street-smart. We're raised a little tougher. We're raised to never back down and to hold our ground.”
“My job is to fight and that's what I do.”
“I will take anyone at 147.”
“I really don't know how the matchmaking goes; that's not what I do.”
“I don't think about the money when I'm training.”
“They say that being humble leaves you out of the record books. I want to be in the record books.”
“Everyone has gone through hard times. Everyone has gone through times where they need extra help.”
“My job is to fight whoever they put in front of me.”