Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

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.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.