Ryan Garcia

You can be a champion and you can be flashy with money and cars but you have a big platform. What are you trying to change?

I love to box, because I think boxing is an art.

I want to test my will.

The Velez fight wasn't my best.

This is a pretty barbaric game. You can't really let emotions get into the way.

If I'm fighting the best, then I can inspire a younger generation. I walk into the gyms and see girls boxing. They say I'm their inspiration. I love that.

My improvements, my fights and the competition is going to get better. I'm going to be ready for it.

At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don't put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn't start going. It's a car without gas.

Promoters need you. You don't need them... The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don't know that.

I got speed and power. I got two things. And I've all the other aspects of boxing.

I've become a better boxer and a better person.

That's one of my idols, I really look up to Pacquiao. This guy is everything I would want to be.

It doesn't matter how much experience Jayson Velez has, whether he fought for a world title or not. I'm going to see how he fights, and I'll know what to do.

Every time I throw, I hate to miss. It's like those timing games in the arcades. I win every single time. Guys watch me and they pay me to keep playing.

My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion.

I ain't intimidated by Mayweather. Nobody could intimidate me.

If people wanted to fight me in the garage, then bring them on, and I will fight them in the garage.

I'm the most underestimated lightweight in the world.

For a million-dollar cheque I would punch Jake Paul.

I'm a true fighter, not an Instagram fighter.

In 2021, Gervonta and Teofimo are the guys I want.

I want Gervonta. That's my Lomachenko fight - the fight that people don't think I can win.

I've been boxing since I was 7 years old.

I've said all along that I was destined for greatness.

My family and I grew up watching and admiring Oscar De La Hoya and to now be fighting under his promotional banner is a dream come true.

I really have no fear.

I've been working on my defense and my inside game.

I just want to lean on my team to make the best decisions for me because, knowing myself, I won't say no to anybody.

I have a great jab.

There's so many people who come to me here in L.A., promising me this and promising me that. What I'm learning is figuring out what's real versus what's just talk.

I take no step backward from anyone.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

I'm so blessed.

I know Golden Boy definitely believes in me and backs me 100 percent.

I'm looking to prove myself and earn that respect in the ring.

Canelo has experience and is a superstar. He's showed me a lot as a mentor. It's the biggest blessing that I can have.

I'm ready to test my skills with the best fighters.

Just like I have all the capabilities to become a big star, Golden Boy has all the tools to get me there.

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

Seeing guys like Canelo helps me get better because they are already champions and I want to become champion. Having role models like that helps me a lot.

Much respect to Carlos Morales. He's a game fighter.

I'm a go-getter. Everything I say I'm going to do, I don't stop until I do it.

I know pretty much all my analytics and I take that into consideration when I'm posting.

I've always had girls liking me.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

I know I need a work ethic to match my talent.

I'm going to wait until I'm 20 before I start calling out world champions.

I wasn't too excited about school, I'm not going to lie.

Canelo is a counterpuncher, a boxer, and that's what I am.