Quotes from Caleb Plant

You don't become a world champion by training like a world champion - after you win a belt. If you want to become a world champion, long before that you've got to walk like one, talk like one, train like one, carry yourself like one. And that means training as hard as you can for every fight.

I'm a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it took to become a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it takes to stay a world champion.

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

I wanted to win that world title so bad because I promised my daughter I would, and so I did.

Something that I wanted to do since I was a kid, bring a world title to the Bridgestone successfully.

I'm very excited to bring my world title home to Nashville in my second title defense.

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.

If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.

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.

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.

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

I am the top guy in the super middleweight division.

Anybody trying to get in the way of what I'm trying to accomplish and be remembered as once I'm not longer here, anybody trying to disrupt that, it's personal for me.

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

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

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.

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

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 wasn't happy with what was going on around me, even when I was only 9 years old. I wasn't happy with the economic situation we were in.

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

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.

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

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.