People tell me that I've also changed their lives making history.
One of those chubby kids that would do something athletic and everybody would look at me and say, 'What the heck? Did that kid just do that?' That's the kind of chubby kid I was.
It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.
The hard-working Mexican tries to get up here looking for opportunities because America's one of the greatest countries in the world.
It's hard to criticise a fighter when you're not in the ring doing what we do.
For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication.
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.
I have been dreaming about the heavyweight title it seems since I was born.
It doesn't matter how you look. As long as you train hard, you focus and you're hungry, and that drive is in you to follow your dreams, everything is possible.
My dad would always give me a Snickers before a fight. It gives me energy. It gives me everything I need to get the win.
A lot of stuff, all the fast food, the cheap food, the dollar menu - I had to cut all that off.
I want to show that it doesn't matter what people say about you or how you don't fit.
I just have to do what I have to do, and just let my hands go and focus.
Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.
Dreams are dreams and reality is reality. We have to make the dreams happen.
Me becoming the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, it's a blessing.
My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.
Whaddya know? I'm the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.
Everyone has a plan until they get hit.
I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.
