Nonito Donaire Quotes

The best feeling is to win by knockout.

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

I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.

I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

If you try your best, you can always be better.

The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

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

In school I was pretty fast.

I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.

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

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

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.

I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.

Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.

I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.

I have a lot of respect for Mexico.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.

If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.

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.

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.

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

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

I believe that he's a boring fighter.

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

He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.

My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.

We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.

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.

Always push beyond what you can do.

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

I'm training everyday, even though I should be resting.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

When you do your best, there is no impossibility.

I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.

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

I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.

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

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

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"

Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.