Top 75 Caleb Plant Quotes

Everything that happens in a fight is the same as what happens in life.

It was a great feeling to be honored by my hometown where it all started. Watching my father get a proclamation for his hard work as well was incredible.

We’re not just up here keeping our fingers crossed hoping that things turn out how they should. That’s not how life works. If you want something, then you’ve got to believe it and you’ve got to feel it in your heart. But you got to work for it.

It’s basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.

When I get to go to the gym or go to the fight or sparring or training, it’s like a sanctuary.

My team has done a great job putting me in a position to be at my best on fight night.

The world doesn’t stop spinning for anybody.

My friends, a lot of them have gone to jail, gone to the penitentiary, things of that matter.

I miss my mother very much. She was a very sweet and wonderful lady. She had demons she was battling with. Some of her demons were stronger than she would have liked for them to be. She had her flaws just like anything other humans do, but we still stayed in touch and we loved each other very much.

I don’t know all that I’m searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the time that I just have to keep going.

People don’t realize the impact they have on your life.

I like people rooting against me. It gives me extra motivation, but when you’re fighting for undisputed status, you don’t need much more motivation than that.

Where I’m from, there’s really not a whole lot going on… Because everyone is in the same situation, no one really sees it as an issue. I just knew it was a big world out there, and I wanted to experience it.

I am the top guy in the super middleweight division.

I just want to win in front of my hometown and win in spectacular fashion. I’ve gotten to perform in many other venues in other states, but it’s going to be a special moment to be able to do that in front of everyone who has known me for the longest.

I want Caleb Truax. He was calling me out when I was 12-0.

I started off doing martial arts, and then I started kick boxing shortly after that.

There’s been a handful of guys who have had a good amount of success against Canelo. I’m a full-fledged super-middleweight. I possess a lot of the same skills and ring I.Q. that those guys do, but I’m 6-1 and a half.

The hard times that I’ve been through have made me the man that I am.

I’m more than willing, able and ready to fight Canelo Alvarez on any date.

I was someone who no one would want to be. But when I got to go to the boxing gym, even at a young age, I was somebody who everybody wanted to be.

Boxing is an imitation of life. You get knocked down and you get back up. You don’t quit no matter how dark it gets, or whatever adversity passes your way. You just got to keep biting down and fighting, coming up the other side and not quitting, no matter what.

Like I talked about, I’m not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.

At a high level there’s always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it’s fake stories or real ones. You’ve got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.

Vincent Feigenbutz is a very tough, rugged European fighter.

I’m a blessed man, I’ve had many blessings in my life. But I’ve had many trials as well and those trials have made me have to dig deep.

I’ve always been the person that, when it’s time to step to the plate under a big situation, that’s when I perform my best.

No breaks and no plan B. I’ve just been boxing, day in and day out.

People go through things in life where they put a certain amount of work or time in and you feel indestructible.

Jan. 31, 2019 will forever be Caleb ‘Sweethands’ Plant Day!

I don’t have a persona or anything like that that I’m trying to live up to.

I’ve got a chip on my shoulder, but that’s something I’ve carried with me my whole life.

I’ve put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.

It’s about keeping my eyes on the prize. That comes in steps. So for me to get where I really want, I have to take it one step at a time and I have to focus on the plate of food that’s in front of me. I can’t be looking down the road or at everyone else‘s plate.

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

The middleweight division has plenty of talent.

I’ve been boxing my whole life.

I don’t fold and surrender for nobody. That’s just a fact.

Boxing is life or death for me. I do not look at this as just a sport, this is my livelihood. If I don’t win, I don’t get to go home, because I’m not going to have a home.

That’s my goal, I want to become the first undisputed super middleweight champion of all-time and whoever is in the way of that, it doesn’t matter. You line them up and I’ll knock them down.

My head has played a big part and that’s what makes any great champion in any sport or just in life.

I don’t want to get beat – in life, in anything. I’m a very prideful person. My will to win has been with me forever.

Any time that a pro fights for his first world title, it’s something that they’ve always dreamed of.

I feel like the situations you go through, they make you who you are and there’s clearly no quit in me.

The oddsmakers can have me as an underdog. I’ve been an underdog my whole life, and I’ve been proving them wrong my whole life. Those are just numbers.

Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they’re from, they’re not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don’t need the latest stuff to get where you’re heading – all you need is focus and drive.

In every decision, there’s two ways you can go. To quit, to stop, or to let it beat you. Or you can beat it.

I don’t look at myself as the favorite in any fight.

Boxing has been everything for me as long as I can remember.

I’ve been told my whole life what I can and can’t be and what I can and can’t achieve.

There have been some guys who lost before the bell even rang against Canelo.

This is not just a job. Boxing is my whole life.

Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that’s true, then my tank will forever be full.

You can’t learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

I feel like I’m the best super middleweight in the world.

The things that you go through, that’s what prepares you and turns you into the man or the woman that you become. So those things have turned me into the man that I am, some for better, some for worse.

The only thing better than proving someone right, is proving somebody wrong.

I’m fit all year round and I like the right lifestyle.

My whole life, I’ve been hearing, ‘He’s good for a white boy‘… My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don’t feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can’t do something.

Everybody knows I want that unification fight with David Benavidez.

I’ve been through everyone’s worst nightmare and I’ve come out the other side.

Whether it’s boxing or in life, I’ve gotten here by any means necessary.

To know the things that I’ve overcome and came out the other side with my chin up and my chest out, things way bigger than any man could give me, I walked through things that most people couldn’t withstand, and I came out with my head high and my chest out.

There have been a lot of guys in my position. A guy who doesn’t have a big name on his record and they step up and face the guy.

I believed in myself and now I’ve been crowned king.

Everyone who knows me knows how serious I take my training, they know how disciplined I am, they know how much I respect this sport and how much work I put into this sport.

In the real world, there’s a lot of things that we can’t control, but when I step through those ropes I get to control everything.

When you really want something, regardless of what it is, you don’t always have to have the fanciest gear or the latest technology, or the greatest, latest stuff.

I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn’t want to do anything else but box.

I can’t focus on what other people say about me.

I feel like I’m a conqueror. That’s what I do. I conquer things.

Some fighters are better when there’s no one in the crowd, and some fighters are best when they’re under the gun and the whole world is watching.

It wasn’t my intention to get under Canelo’s skin at the first press conference. I think the media makes more of it than we do. We’ve both been in worse scuffles than that.

I love where I’m from, but it’s a tough, poverty-stricken area.

For all fighters, you haven‘t faced anyone until you’ve faced somebody.