Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.”

“You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.”

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

“Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.”

“People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.”

“I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.”

“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.”

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

“Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.”

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