Caleb Plant Quotes

1. “It's basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.”

2. “Boxing is an imitation of life. You get knocked down and you get back up. You don't quit no matter how dark it gets, or whatever adversity passes your way. You just got to keep biting down and fighting, coming up the other side and not quitting, no matter what.”

3. “You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.”

4. “At a high level there's always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it's fake stories or real ones. You've got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.”

5. “I'm just hoping throughout my career I can help eliminate what people can and can't be because of where they're from or what they look like or their religion or ethnicity.”

6. “Everything that happens in a fight is the same as what happens in life.”

7. “The things that you go through, that's what prepares you and turns you into the man or the woman that you become. So those things have turned me into the man that I am, some for better, some for worse.”

8. “The only thing better than proving someone right, is proving somebody wrong.”

9. “I miss my mother very much. She was a very sweet and wonderful lady. She had demons she was battling with. Some of her demons were stronger than she would have liked for them to be. She had her flaws just like anything other humans do, but we still stayed in touch and we loved each other very much.”

10. “Boxing has always been like a sanctuary for me. It's been a place that I could go and be somebody.”

11. “The hard times that I've been through have made me the man that I am.”

12. “I believed in myself and now I've been crowned king.”

13. “I am a kid who came from nothing.”

14. “I've been the underdog before. It's a place I like to be.”

15. “I like people rooting against me. It gives me extra motivation, but when you're fighting for undisputed status, you don't need much more motivation than that.”

16. “It wasn't my intention to get under Canelo's skin at the first press conference. I think the media makes more of it than we do. We've both been in worse scuffles than that.”

17. “Whether it's boxing or in life, I've gotten here by any means necessary.”

18. “To know the things that I've overcome and came out the other side with my chin up and my chest out, things way bigger than any man could give me, I walked through things that most people couldn't withstand, and I came out with my head high and my chest out.”

19. “In the real world, there's a lot of things that we can't control, but when I step through those ropes I get to control everything.”

20. “Champions, no matter what's going on in their life or even in the gym, at the end of the day when it's time to do what they do best, they go in there and they block all that out. They block out all the noise, they block out all the ups and downs,and they do the job. And that's what I'm best at.”

21. “Something that I wanted to do since I was a kid, bring a world title to the Bridgestone successfully.”

22. “I feel like I'm the best super middleweight in the world.”

23. “That's my goal, I want to become the first undisputed super middleweight champion of all-time and whoever is in the way of that, it doesn't matter. You line them up and I'll knock them down.”

24. “Losing both my daughter and my mother was real painful but it's made me stronger. Fighting for their memory is a motivating factor for me.”

25. “We're not just up here keeping our fingers crossed hoping that things turn out how they should. That's not how life works. If you want something, then you've got to believe it and you've got to feel it in your heart. But you got to work for it.”

26. “I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn't want to do anything else but box.”

27. “I wanted to win that world title so bad because I promised my daughter I would, and so I did.”

28. “I'm fit all year round and I like the right lifestyle.”

29. “Boxing has been everything for me as long as I can remember.”

30. “I love where I'm from, but it's a tough, poverty-stricken area.”

31. “I wasn't happy with what was going on around me, even when I was only 9 years old. I wasn't happy with the economic situation we were in.”

32. “I've been through everyone's worst nightmare and I've come out the other side.”

33. “I don't fold and surrender for nobody. That's just a fact.”

34. “There's been a handful of guys who have had a good amount of success against Canelo. I'm a full-fledged super-middleweight. I possess a lot of the same skills and ring I.Q. that those guys do, but I'm 6-1 and a half.”

35. “I can't focus on what other people say about me.”

36. “I've always felt I perform best under the brightest lights and the biggest moments.”

37. “People don't realize the impact they have on your life.”

38. “When you're in that position - when things are crumbling around you - the thing to remember always is that, 'If I quit, this is all it's ever going to be. It's never going to get better.'”

39. “I don't want to get beat - in life, in anything. I'm a very prideful person. My will to win has been with me forever.”

40. “I've got a chip on my shoulder, but that's something I've carried with me my whole life.”

41. “The oddsmakers can have me as an underdog. I've been an underdog my whole life, and I've been proving them wrong my whole life. Those are just numbers.”

42. “There have been some guys who lost before the bell even rang against Canelo.”

43. “It's about keeping my eyes on the prize. That comes in steps. So for me to get where I really want, I have to take it one step at a time and I have to focus on the plate of food that's in front of me. I can't be looking down the road or at everyone else's plate.”

44. “Boxing has been around for a while and there's a lot of great examples of what to do and what not to do. You can look at those examples and learn from other people's mistakes without having to go through it the hard way.”

45. “I'm a Golden Gloves national champion, I'm an Olympic alternate.”

46. “Like I talked about, I'm not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.”

47. “I feel like the situations you go through, they make you who you are and there's clearly no quit in me.”

48. “Most great men start in that position, with very little and that's what motivates them to get where they're going.”

49. “When you really want something, regardless of what it is, you don't always have to have the fanciest gear or the latest technology, or the greatest, latest stuff.”

50. “Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they're from, they're not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don't need the latest stuff to get where you're heading - all you need is focus and drive.”

51. “There have been a lot of guys in my position. A guy who doesn't have a big name on his record and they step up and face the guy.”

52. “For all fighters, you haven't faced anyone until you've faced somebody.”

53. “Everyone who knows me knows how serious I take my training, they know how disciplined I am, they know how much I respect this sport and how much work I put into this sport.”

54. “I've been told my whole life what I can and can't be and what I can and can't achieve.”

55. “Whether it's fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I'm a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.”

56. “My head has played a big part and that's what makes any great champion in any sport or just in life.”

57. “In every decision, there's two ways you can go. To quit, to stop, or to let it beat you. Or you can beat it.”

58. “I feel like I'm a conqueror. That's what I do. I conquer things.”

59. “Where I'm from, there's really not a whole lot going on… Because everyone is in the same situation, no one really sees it as an issue. I just knew it was a big world out there, and I wanted to experience it.”

60. “The world doesn't stop spinning for anybody.”

61. “This is not just a job. Boxing is my whole life.”

62. “Anybody trying to get in the way of what I'm trying to accomplish and be remembered as once I'm not longer here, anybody trying to disrupt that, it's personal for me.”

63. “I've put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.”

64. “You don't become a world champion by training like a world champion - after you win a belt. If you want to become a world champion, long before that you've got to walk like one, talk like one, train like one, carry yourself like one. And that means training as hard as you can for every fight.”

65. “I don't know all that I'm searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the time that I just have to keep going.”

66. “I started off doing martial arts, and then I started kick boxing shortly after that.”

67. “Boxing is life or death for me. I do not look at this as just a sport, this is my livelihood. If I don't win, I don't get to go home, because I'm not going to have a home.”

68. “My friends, a lot of them have gone to jail, gone to the penitentiary, things of that matter.”

69. “I knew I could grow up to be whatever I wanted to be and my whole life the only thing I wanted to be is a fighter.”

70. “My whole life, I've been hearing, 'He's good for a white boy'… My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don't feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can't do something.”

71. “My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring out the absolute best in me.”

72. “People go through things in life where they put a certain amount of work or time in and you feel indestructible.”

73. “I think in those moments of being in that deep water, it's have you been in that deep water?”

74. “I'm a blessed man, I've had many blessings in my life. But I've had many trials as well and those trials have made me have to dig deep.”

75. “Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that's true, then my tank will forever be full.”

76. “I just want to win in front of my hometown and win in spectacular fashion. I've gotten to perform in many other venues in other states, but it's going to be a special moment to be able to do that in front of everyone who has known me for the longest.”

77. “I'm a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it took to become a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it takes to stay a world champion.”

78. “I feel like there's too many areas in my game that I've sharpened and crafted and brought to a really high level.”

79. “I am the top guy in the super middleweight division.”

80. “I don't have a persona or anything like that that I'm trying to live up to.”

81. “When I get to go to the gym or go to the fight or sparring or training, it's like a sanctuary.”

82. “I was someone who no one would want to be. But when I got to go to the boxing gym, even at a young age, I was somebody who everybody wanted to be.”

83. “If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.”

84. “My team has done a great job putting me in a position to be at my best on fight night.”

85. “I've been boxing my whole life.”

86. “No breaks and no plan B. I've just been boxing, day in and day out.”

87. “I don't look at myself as the favorite in any fight.”

88. “I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.”

89. “I ain't hard to make a fight with.”

90. “I'm more than willing, able and ready to fight Canelo Alvarez on any date.”

91. “It was a great feeling to be honored by my hometown where it all started. Watching my father get a proclamation for his hard work as well was incredible.”

92. “Jan. 31, 2019 will forever be Caleb 'Sweethands' Plant Day!”

93. “Any time that a pro fights for his first world title, it's something that they've always dreamed of.”

94. “Everybody knows I want that unification fight with David Benavidez.”

95. “Vincent Feigenbutz is a very tough, rugged European fighter.”

96. “I'm very excited to bring my world title home to Nashville in my second title defense.”

97. “I've always been the person that, when it's time to step to the plate under a big situation, that's when I perform my best.”

98. “Some fighters are better when there's no one in the crowd, and some fighters are best when they're under the gun and the whole world is watching.”

99. “The middleweight division has plenty of talent.”

100. “I want Caleb Truax. He was calling me out when I was 12-0.”