Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. — 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
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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 Image
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing -… — 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public… — 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
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing,… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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.” quote by Sugar Ray Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/daa/sugar-ray-leonard-3228_boxing_i-m-not-in-favor-of-that-mandating-prote_2978893.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Sugar Ray Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c7/sugar-ray-leonard-3228_boxing_this-kid-janks-morton-jr-was-so-special_1451292.jpg)
