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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

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends. — Dick Schaap

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

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard. — Usher

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight. — Sugar Ray Robinson

Rhythm is everything in boxing ... — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Hurting people is my business. — Sugar Ray Robinson

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth. — Sugar Ray Leonard

My business is hurting people. — Sugar Ray Robinson

I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like 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 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

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

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

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing. — Sugar Ray Leonard

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson. — George Clinton

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes — Jake LaMotta

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. — 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

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

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 ain't never liked violence. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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 fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes. — Jake LaMotta

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end. — 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

It's hard to talk about yourself. — Sugar Ray Leonard

If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath. — Chelsea Kane

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

I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta. — Marvin Hagler

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

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that. — 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

I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen — Dave Gorman

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

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing. — Sugar Ray Leonard

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing. — Marvin Hagler

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

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. — Bob Arum

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.' — 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

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

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Don't let anything without a heart beat you. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head. — Sugar Ray Leonard

to be a champ you have to beleive in yourself when nobodyelse will. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself. — Sugar Ray Leonard

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. — Sugar Ray Robinson

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty. — 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