Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

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

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

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.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

I always expect unexpected challenges.

I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.

Spread your love and fly.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

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

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.

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

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.

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.

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