Nonito Donaire quotes
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“Confident fighters are dangerous fighters. I know that. But there other fighters who said before a fight they were stronger than me, hit harder, were going to knock me out. Walters is a good champion but really how many quality fights has he been in compared to where I have been in my career? We both have speed, we both have power. It's an explosive fight. This is going to end in a knockout. I will go into the ring and do my best.”
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“Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.”
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“As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.”
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“All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.”
-- Nonito DonaireSource : "Nonito Donaire Q & A". The Ring Interview, www.ringtv.com.
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“If there's a best, I want to fight them.”
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“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.”
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“Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.”
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“Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.”
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“I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.”
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“Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.”
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“People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.”
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“Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.”
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“I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.”
-- Nonito DonaireSource : "Nonito Donaire Q & A". The Ring Interview, www.ringtv.com.
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“I was always into cartoons and animation.”
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“I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"”
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“You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.”
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“Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.”
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“When you do your best, there is no impossibility.”
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“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.”
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“I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.”
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“My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.”
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“Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.”
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“I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.”
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“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.”
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“If you try your best, you can always be better.”
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“He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.”
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“I'm training everyday, even though I should be resting.”
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“I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.”
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“He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.”
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“Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.”
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“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.”
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“He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.”
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“I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.”
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“I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.”
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“I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.”
-- Nonito Donaire#Motivation Quotes #Life Is Short Quotes #Live In The Moment Quotes
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“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.”
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“Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.”
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“Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.”
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“If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.”
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“The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.”
-- Nonito DonaireSource : "Donaire vs Mathebula: Nonito Donaire on Drug Testing, Training, and a Taller Opponent". Press conference, www.badlefthook.com. June 28, 2012.
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