That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.
“That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.”
— Andy Ruiz Jr. · Baby
The World Motivation
That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.
“That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.”
— Andy Ruiz Jr. · Baby
That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.
You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.
My dad's been giving me Snickers since I was six years old. Since I first turned amateur, my dad's been giving it to me.
You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.
Ever since I won the world title I've been getting so much love from my people, from a lot of different people. But I know the hunger remains there because I don't want to let my people down or my kids down.
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.