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The shoulder roll was created in Philly. I've been fighting people that roll their shoulders since I was a little kid.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Little Kid
Shoulder
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A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Fall
Worry
Fights
Nobody
Danny
Everything Else
Place
Nobody Else
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I'm going to be one of the best fighters coming out of Philadelphia and one of the best Latino fighters who's ever done it.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Latino
Philadelphia
Fighters
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I've been in this position many times and I know it's these so-called easy fights that can be harder than the toughest ones.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Fights
So-Called
Toughest
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This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Philadelphia
Fighters
Occasion
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I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Great Myself Always
Fighters
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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You have to have people around you that know what makes you happy and know what makes you mad. I have the right people around me.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Me People Happy
Right People
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I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss, or more than a couple of losses.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Best Time Great
Fighters
Losses
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I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Puerto Rico
Rico
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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I love it here in Puerto Rico. I love the weather and the beautiful people. Everything about the culture is like where I grew up in Philadelphia.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Beautiful People
Philadelphia
Puerto Rico
Rico
Weather
Puerto
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Pacquiao needs a fighter like me to sell. Our styles match up better than anyone else's styles in the welterweight division. It would be a great fight.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Great Fight Me
Styles
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Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Minutes
Scream
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It's an exciting feeling going to Puerto Rico. To go back where my dad was born, my bloodline, it means a lot to me to reach out to my fans in Puerto Rico.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Puerto Rico
Rico
Puerto
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Somebody might try to steal your backpack, somebody might throw bread at you in the lunchroom. I was the kind of kid that if you did that, I wanted to fight.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Bread
Backpack
Steal
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My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Dad
Couple
Grandma
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In basketball and football I would cry. I didn't understood why all my teammates weren't good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Good Football Me
Teammates
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I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Home
Fighting
Ideas
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People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Hungry
Fight Father Me
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I think there's a lack of respect for me out there, from the promoters, boxing people. It's something I've faced ever since I put on gloves. I don't understand it. I know my father doesn't.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Gloves
Promoters
Faced
Respect Father Me
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I wanted to box when I was 7, but I couldn't because in Philadelphia you need to be 10 to get insurance. So me and my dad waited 3 years until I could sign up, and I've been fighting since then.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Philadelphia
Insurance
Waited
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I was ready to move up a weight class, but I can still make 140. If I'm back in the ring in the summertime I know I can make 140 with the heat. I've always been disciplined so it's no problem for me.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Class
Moving
Summertime
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I'm a father now. I got to man up and be the best father I can be, which means I have to fight smarter. I can't take a lot of unnecessary punishment. I got to protect my future, and my child's future.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Punishment
Smarter
Unnecessary
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Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the first person people think of is me. I guess they thought it would be easy, but nothing comes easy.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Real
Thinking
Winning
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It would be a dream come true to end Manny's career, just like I ended Erik Morales' career. It would be that same type of feeling. Pacquiao is a global superstar, and once I beat him, I'll be the new pay-per-view superstar.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Superstar
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I've been to a lot of different cities around the world. People in Philly are a lot different... We're raised a little more street-smart. We're raised a little tougher. We're raised to never back down and to hold our ground.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
World People Back
Tougher
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You know, I accept some things with a laugh. Amir Khan was supposed to be a killer, and look what I did to him. Then it gets back to me that people thought I was lucky. Well, I must be lucky my whole life then, because I keep winning.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Life Look Me
Some Things
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It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Long
Philadelphia
World
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You work for years and years to make the Olympics, then something goes wrong and it's all gone. But that doesn't mean you can't still make your mark in another way. Losing in the Olympic Trials made me that much hungrier to become a world champion as a pro.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Another Way
Trials
Work Champion World
Hungrier
Olympic
Pro
World Champion
Years And Years
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From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can't say I knew how big the Olympics are. I just knew that every kid in the gym wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Every kid in every gym probably wants to win an Olympic gold medal.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Medal
Gold Medal
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
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I fought on the undercard of a show headlined by Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Jr. There was almost no one in the arena then. But when Hatton and Mayweather came out, every seat was filled. There had to be 16,000 or 17,000 people in there. The place was going crazy.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Arena
Filled
Floyd Mayweather
Going Crazy
Seat
Fought
Ricky
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I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Jobs
Boxing
Self
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The last couple of years have been a good learning experience for me and a good journey. My first world title fight I fought Erik Morales and how much experience do you think you can get from that? A lot of people thought he would beat me because of experience. I've faced a lot of experienced fighters.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Journey
Couple
Fighting
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When I used to fight in the amateurs, guys wouldn't show up for the finals and I won the tournament. They wouldn't call my name when it was time to get the trophy. They called everyone else's name. Believe me, you remember things like that. I'd say there was disrespect there. It's followed me into the pros.
Danny Garcia / Professional Boxer
Disrespect
Finals
Amateur
Won
Followed
Time Fight Believe
Pros
Tournament
Trophy
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