Roberto Duran Quotes & Sayings

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

“I'm not God - but I am something similar.”

“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.”

“I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.”

“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.”

“There is only one legend. That's me.”

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

“Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.”

“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.”

“I was born to be champion of the world.”