Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
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… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
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… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share
