Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Felt
Gloves
Found
Embedded
Moments
Boxing
Tried
Became
Friend
Moment
Natural
More quotes by 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
I always expect unexpected challenges.
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
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Spread your love and fly.
Sugar Ray Leonard
It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I want to be great, something special.
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
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
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
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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
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 remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
Sugar Ray Leonard
It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
Sugar Ray Leonard
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
Sugar Ray Leonard
