CHRIS ARREOLA

I only care about myself and my family and this fight I'm gonna win for my family and for myself.

And it's a big honor to be fighting for the title and to put a Mexican-American on top of the heavyweight division. I can give a lot of people some kind of inspiration by winning this title.

I'm my own worst enemy. I like to eat, and when people tell me to do something I do the opposite.

The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

I'm a finisher. I'm a shark, and if I see blood, I'm gonna finish you.

I feel like I'm a mature fighter, I have what it takes between my ears and in my heart.

All my career I have been a pressure fighter. I know no other way to fight.

I'll take some to give some because I want to win that bad.

My motivation is to keep fighting, to keep putting food on my family's table, keep making a living off of boxing. That's my motivation.

There are those kind of fighters that just go in to get paid. That's not me, man. I have never been that guy.

I got to leave everything in the ring. I got to leave everything out there, man.

We do cardio, core strength, lifting - and we train in the mornings, which I hate.

In the past I would give myself a reason to have an excuse. I wouldn't show up at the gym. I wouldn't do what I'm supposed to do as a professional.

The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.

I would love to fight someone like Dominic Breazeale next year. Him or the Polish guy, Adam Kownacki. That's more of an entertaining one. I love watching him fight. He smiles while he's fighting and I think that's the coolest thing to watch.

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

And that's what I fight for, I fight for the fans, and of course I want that title.

I'm in the boxing game to be a champion. That's why I'm in boxing.

If people have seen me fight, I don't come in to get paid. I come in there to win.

I'm a young 32, but I want to do this only so long, so that when I'm 37-38, people can understand what I'm saying when I talk to them.

People have tried to keep me at bay with their jab, but once I put that pressure on, there is only so much you can do.

I stopped eating out so much. That just piles weight on you. I stay active now. Just taking a walk for 30-45 minutes can do wonders.

You can't cut no days, you can't cut no corners, because you will feel it in the gym, you'll feel it in the sparring.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.