Nonito Donaire

“If there's a best, I want to fight them.”

“I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.”

“As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.”

“Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.”

“As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.”

“Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.”

“I love my wife.”

“Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.”

“A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.”

“The best feeling is to win by knockout.”

“In school I was pretty fast.”

“I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.”

“People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.”

“My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.”

“For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.”

“I have a lot of respect for Mexico.”

“I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.”

“Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.”

“With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.”

“Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.”