Demetrius Andrade Quotes

That’s where my amateur background helps. You step on a scale, you fight whoever they tell you to fight.

A belt doesn’t identify me.

You can’t be young forever.

If they don’t want to do it, that’s their loss. If U.S. TV don’t want to cover me, I can’t beat myself up.

We don’t control Canelo or Golden Boy.

I’m the best out there.

I don’t want to fight the bottom guys.

Everyone says, ‘What does Demetrius Andrade bring to the table?’ Besides being the best American middleweight, and one of the top three middleweights in the world, everyone knows who I am and they know how good I am.

Willie Nelson is a true champion. He pushed me to the limit where I had to figure out what punches to throw. But I put the pieces of the puzzle together and got the knockout, baby.

I want to keep active.

I’m the best in the world.

If you think I’m a walk in the park, come walk in this park and see how easy it is.

My name ain’t Liam Smith, my name ain’t Rocky Fielding, my name ain’t Amir Khan, James Kirkland – it’s Demetrius Andrade and it ain’t no easy walk in the park.

I always believed in myself, and I knew if I worked hard, stayed positive and did what I was supposed to, that good things would happen.

All great legends and all Hall of Fame fighters have their storylines.

My job is to win.

With everything going on with COVID, you don’t know what’s going to happen.

People want to see me fight.

I’m trying to give the fans fights they want to see.

If I keep to my plan, nobody can beat me.

Some people know me, some people don’t. Who would know Steve Jobs if he walked down the street?

Every fight is going to bring something different out of you.

Every day, I can learn.

Everybody wants something until they have a chance to really get it.

People might not know much about Akavov, but this is a guy who went overseas and gave Billy Joe Saunders absolute hell. Most people thought that he should have won the fight.

Fighting at Madison Square Garden, where so many great fighters have fought is a true honor, and something I have dreamt about my entire life.

For Canelo to call me boring, I mean, is he serious with that? I mean, I’m boring but Rocky Fielding is really exciting. Yeah, sure Canelo. Liam Smith was so exciting. Everybody couldn’t wait for that.

If someone wants to come and say hi and respect the work that I’ve done, I’m happy to meet them.

Let’s give the fans what they want and deserve to see.

Who cares about GGG-Canelo III? Honestly, who cares?

Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.

I have a family to support.

If the crowd wants me to go out there and bang out – and that’s not something that I do – then they need to go watch somebody else.

The boxing world knows I’m the baddest man out there, but not having the right promotion behind me putting me out there has hurt me and that’s why I’ve made the changes, and Matchroom and DAZN know what I can bring and they can move me to the next level.

I just work hard and do what I’ve got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.

I know there’s always room for improvement.

I’m a bad man!

I’m going to knock out the Charlo twins.

Who doesn’t want to be undisputed champion of the world?

I love being in the gym.

We are fighting tough guys to get it on whereas Canelo and GGG have been cherry-picking. They can do that with the profile they have. It’s just business. I’m not upset about it because my time will come when I walk in with one belt and walk out with four.

There have been times when people lost and they have come back, but somebody like me, we ain’t got time for that.

There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I’ve been very vocal about it.

I will not turn down a Canelo fight. I won’t sell myself short, but I will not turn down a Canelo fight.

If you want to be the best you have to keep winning.

Money talks. When you have the financing behind you, you can make deals.

I don’t got time to sit and wait for guys like Canelo.

I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.

I stay in the gym consistently.

Sulecki is no pushover. He ain’t no Steve Rolls, ain’t no Rocky Fielding.

Everybody knows the work that I’ve put in.

Look at me: The guys I fight, they’re in their primes. Canelo is out there fighting guys on their way out.

Ask anybody who has ever sent over a contract over to my team and they’ll tell you that we get back to people with a response very quickly.

Golovkin went through a period where nobody wanted to fight him. I am that guy now – the man nobody wants to fight.

At the end of the day, there’s a line full of people that want to fight Canelo and there’s champions that maybe fought better opposition than me, but the reason why is because these people didn’t want to fight me.