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I want to be great, something special.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.
— Nonito Donaire
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Spread your love and fly.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing will always be in my life.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
It's hard to talk about yourself.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali ... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.
— Nonito Donaire
Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
— Dick Schaap
I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
— Marvin Hagler
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
