Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Skills
Sort
Sports
Given
Happens
Beating
Life
Skill
People
Mines
Mine
More quotes by 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
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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
We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
Sugar Ray Leonard
My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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
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
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
This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
Sugar Ray Leonard
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Spread your love and fly.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
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
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
