Roberto Duran Quotes

• I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

  Roberto Duran

  Spring, Fighting, Animal

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• Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

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  Motivational Sports, Boxing, Guy

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• The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

  Roberto Duran

  Wind

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• I was born to be champion of the world

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  Champion, World, Duran Duran

  "Duran, Whitaker Head Boxing Hall of Fame" By William Kates, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2006.

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• I'm not God, but I am something similar.

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  Sports, Boxing, Fighter

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• I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

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  Crazy, Men, Bed

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• There is only one legend. That's me

  Roberto Duran

  Legends

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• Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

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  Mother, Horse, Home

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• I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk

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  Thinking, Names, Laughing

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• Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

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  Kill Me, Wanted, Rings

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• I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

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  Fighting, Fighter, Born

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• If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather

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  Fighting, Would Be, Want

  "Even at 55, Roberto Duran packs a wallop". Interview with Arturo Sanchez, www.espn.com. September 27, 2006.

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• I really feel that if it wasnt for the accident, Id still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

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  Fighting, Doctors, Sound

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• I am not God but something similar

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• I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

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  Thank You, Heart, America

  "Duran, Whitaker Head Boxing Hall of Fame" By John Kekis, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2007.

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• The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

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  Fighting, Titles, World

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• Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.

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  Style, Wheels, Fighter

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• De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

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  Singing, Salsa, Should

  "Even at 55, Roberto Duran packs a wallop". ESPN Interview, www.espn.com. September 27, 2006.

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• Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

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  White, Black, Legends

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• Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

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  Fighting, Way, Fighter

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• Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

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  Wise, Cuba, Fighter

  "Even at 55, Roberto Duran packs a wallop". ESPN Interview, www.espn.com. September 27, 2006.

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