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. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn’t need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I’m a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain – that’s what makes me tick. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
I’m one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that – there’s another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
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. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
Boxing is individual, although there’s a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it’s more of a Mano a Mano; it’s more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
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. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
I made mistakes, but I’m luckier than most. I’ve got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
