Quotes by Callum Smith - Page 2

Daniel Jacobs is a big name over in America, which is somewhere obviously I want to get my name bigger, so there are potential big fights out there for me.
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Daniel
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A lot of people say I've got an old head on young shoulders and I think that's because I'd been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.
Callum Smith /
Boxing
Long Time
Shoulders
Time Long People
People Say
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I believe I've shown my worth, become a world champion, now I want to try and see how good I am. The only way I'll find that out is by testing myself against the best.
Callum Smith /
Best Good Myself
Shown
World Champion
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My mum was always saying when we were kids: 'If you don't do you homework you're not going to the gym.' She was always a big believer in having something to fall back on.
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Believer
Gym
Homework
Mum
Big Believer
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I had the one goal to become world champion for so long and now that I've achieved it, I thought that it was the top of the mountain. But now that I'm up there, it's not.
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Mountain
Achieved
World Champion
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As long as it was George Groves in the opposite corner with his world title, the date was irrelevant to me. I was prepared to wait as long as it took to get that fight for the world title.
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Irrelevant
Prepared
Opposite
Date
World Long Me
Corner
Fight
Fight World Me
George
Wait
Title
Took
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I was obsessed with the Turtles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There's Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and my dad used to call me Callemundo, saying you're the fifth turtle.
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Fifth
Leonardo
Ninja
Raphael
Teenage
Mutant
Turtle
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Thankfully I still have things I want to achieve so I can just set more goals. Now I want to unify, I want to have big fights and then one day move up and become a two-weight world champion.
Callum Smith /
Fights
Thankfully
Unify
World Champion
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Style-wise, I'm not ideal to fight, but I'm not taking anything away from 'Canelo' Alvarez, he's a special fighter and he's one of the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world for a reason.
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Best Fight World
Ideal
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When we all retire it will be the happiest day of her life. She's proud of what we've all done but she doesn't enjoy it. Most mums of boxers only have one to worry about - but she's got four.
Callum Smith /
Boxers
Life Done Day
Happiest
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We do need maybe younger or more experienced judges but where you can get them I don't know. It's like in football, who would want to be a football referee? You'd just get criticism all the time.
Callum Smith /
Criticism
Football
Referee
Younger
Experienced
Judges
Maybe
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I've been there for every world title fight my family have been involved in. I've been there in the changing rooms. I've experienced the nerves - perhaps more when it's not me and when it's one of them.
Callum Smith /
Nerves
Rooms
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I think he's a special fighter, I'm a big Canelo fan, but I think he's a special fighter at middleweight and I think a lot of his advantages he has at that level, he'll lose when he steps up to super middleweight.
Callum Smith /
Steps
Advantages
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Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.
Callum Smith /
Opponents
Questioning
Underdog
Wipe
Good Enough Me
Good Me People
Beating
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When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.
Callum Smith /
Commonwealth
Olympics
Preparation
Silver
Squad
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When I won the world title, I am not going to lie, it was an unbelievable feeling. It was like a weight off my shoulders, a goal I'd set myself for so long and one others had talked about. When I got there I realised how I am never satisfied and how I always want more.
Callum Smith /
Realised
Satisfied
Unbelievable
Myself World I Am
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The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.
Callum Smith /
Life Changing
Ultimate Goal
Belt
Magazine
World Champion
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