Quotes by Nonito Donaire

About Nonito Donaire:

Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino American professional boxer. Donaire is a five-division world champion and the former WBA (Super) Featherweight champion. He is known as "The Filipino Flash."
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If there's a best, I want to fight them.

Nonito Donaire

Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.

Nonito Donaire

The best feeling is to win by knockout.

Nonito Donaire

In school I was pretty fast.

Nonito Donaire

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Nonito Donaire

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

Nonito Donaire

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

Nonito Donaire

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

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

Nonito Donaire

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

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

I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.

Nonito Donaire

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

Nonito Donaire

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.

Nonito Donaire

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

Nonito Donaire

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

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

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Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

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

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Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

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Author Bio

  • NameNonito Donaire
  • DescriptionFilipino American professional boxer
  • BornNovember 16, 1982
  • CountryPhilippines
  • ProfessionBoxer