A biography for Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.hasn’t been written yet.
“They would not boo me in Culiacan.”
“Whitaker is nothing without me. He can't fill an arena or stadium. He's nobody.”
“Mexican boxing is very aggressive; you go forward with great heart. The American style is always that you run around, you try to be elusive. The Mexican style is much better. I never tried to be elusive.”
“Whitaker ran... he made a lot of fouls.”
“The thing I don't like about Whitaker is he has an ugly style. He makes all his opponents look ugly.”
“My father, Rodolfo, worked as a train conductor and that's how we came to live in the railway car. The Government owned it, and we paid rent on it. Back then I would wake up at 4 in the morning and run through the streets, selling newspapers. I'd scream out, 'Sol, Debate, Noreste.' Those were the papers I sold.”
“Whitaker will be nothing without Julio Cesar Chavez. I do not need Whitaker. Whitaker doesn't make the money I can. He can't fill arenas. He is nobody.”
“I was always winning, winning, winning. I took winning for granted.”
“Macho means you are in the ring to fight, to attack.”
“I've never been booed in my hometown.”
“I think 113 fights are really enough.”
“I am going to have to search for Whitaker. I intend to throw punches at him from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.”
“I had it all - money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want - but it didn't give my life meaning.”
“Thank God that I lost against Frankie Randall because he made me put my feet firmly on the ground.”
“Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.”
“I told my mother I was going to become a world champion and buy her a home.”
“People pay to see you fight.”
“I never said I was a robot or a superman or a super being.”
“I do feel pressured sometimes because I feel responsible for so many people.”
“Fights are won by fighting, not by running.”