Boxing Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing will always be in my life.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing -…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

— 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

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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

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

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

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

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

— 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 watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality,…

— 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…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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

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

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

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

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

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