Top 95 Quotes by 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.

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.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

We're 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.

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

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

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.