Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

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

“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.”

“My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.”

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. Id like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

To say what I would have been if I wasnt boxing, I dont know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didnt give us homework, or because Ive always had x-rays of my hands.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 oclock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. Theres nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Boxing is individual, although theres a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but its more of a Mano a Mano; its more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family.

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I dont recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.