Andy Ruiz Jr.

Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he's the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.

Training at altitude took two weeks to get used to.

You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.

I need to remain humble, stay disciplined and keep training. That's how I will continue to be a champion.

I've been bullied a few times in school.

I was fighting men at age 10.

I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication.