Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Country, Kissing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

• I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Blessed, Boxing

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Killers

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Guy

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jun 10, 2013

• Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Philosophy, Believe

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Aug 26, 2013

• Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Artist, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 18, 2015

• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

• To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Running, Lifting Weights

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Mar 18, 2014

• I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Religious, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Sacrifice, Want

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Careers, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 03, 2014

• I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Sports, Hurt, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Believe, Men

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 10, 2013

• Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Weight, Fighter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Training, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Thinking, Air

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Fighting, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Sports, Boxing, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Wife, Stubborn

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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 kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Kids, Golf

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 16, 2012.

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

• I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Brother, Squares

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Fighting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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