Top 50 Nonito Donaire Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you try your best, you can always be better.”

— Nonito Donaire

2. “I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.”

— Nonito Donaire

3. “All I know is that I’m proud to be Filipino.”

— Nonito Donaire

4. “The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.”

— Nonito Donaire

5. “Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.”

— Nonito Donaire

6. “Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.”

— Nonito Donaire

7. “I’m training everyday, even though I should be resting.”

— Nonito Donaire

8. “The best feeling is to win by knockout.”

— Nonito Donaire

9. “He’s a smart guy, but I think I’m a genius.”

— Nonito Donaire

10. “People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.”

— Nonito Donaire

11. “I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.”

— Nonito Donaire

12. “I’ll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.”

— Nonito Donaire

13. “I’m not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.”

— Nonito Donaire

14. “I wanted to bring that old school mentality of “Fight Me!, Fight me!””

— Nonito Donaire

15. “He’s such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he’s so strong.”

— Nonito Donaire

16. “I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.”

— Nonito Donaire

17. “Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.”

— Nonito Donaire

18. “He said it’s an honor to fight me, well I say that it’s an honor to fight him as well.”

— Nonito Donaire

19. “I was always into cartoons and animation.”

— Nonito Donaire

20. “I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there’s always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.”

— Nonito Donaire

21. “Being a world champion is something I’m already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.”

— Nonito Donaire

22. “I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.”

— Nonito Donaire

23. “In school I was pretty fast.”

— Nonito Donaire

24. “With me, boxing’s a beautiful sport.”

— Nonito Donaire

25. “If he wants to box we’ll box. If he wants to brawl we’ll brawl.”

— Nonito Donaire

26. “I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.”

— Nonito Donaire

27. “Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.”

— Nonito Donaire

28. “We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that’s why I respect fighters. Unless they don’t respect me then I can’t give any respect back.”

— Nonito Donaire

29. “You can’t look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.”

— Nonito Donaire

30. “Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.”

— Nonito Donaire

31. “For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it’s a left, I’ll take it. If it’s a right I’ll take it.”

— Nonito Donaire

32. “As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there’s no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.”

— Nonito Donaire

33. “Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.”

— Nonito Donaire

34. “A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don’t utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that’s where the power comes in.”

— Nonito Donaire

35. “My style is like Bruce Lee, I’m like water. It’s everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.”

— Nonito Donaire

36. “I believe that he’s a boring fighter.”

— Nonito Donaire

37. “I’ll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they’ll make it happen.”

— Nonito Donaire

38. “My Internet friends who I play games with say, ‘This guy’s a fighter?’ I’m the last person they expect to be a fighter.”

— Nonito Donaire

39. “My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he’s seeing me as a man, and I’m seeing him as the father he’s always been.”

— Nonito Donaire

40. “I lived my life where I didn’t have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.”

— Nonito Donaire

41. “Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that’s how I move.”

— Nonito Donaire

42. “I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.”

— Nonito Donaire

43. “When you do your best, there is no impossibility.”

— Nonito Donaire

44. “I have a lot of respect for Mexico.”

— Nonito Donaire

45. “As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn’t deserve what happened tonight.”

— Nonito Donaire

46. “Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.”

— Nonito Donaire

47. “He’s going for the home run, I’m going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I’m getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.”

— Nonito Donaire

48. “Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that’s more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.”

— Nonito Donaire

49. “Growing up as an amateur, I wasn’t much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.”

— Nonito Donaire

50. “If there’s a best, I want to fight them.”

— Nonito Donaire