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" 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

Ray

Boxing

Personality

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Muhammad Ali

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" I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life. "

" Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. "

" The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him. "

" You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too. "

" You just don't heal that easy unless you're young. "

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

" No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. "

" I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy. "

" I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

Brother

Day

" 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. "

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

" I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. "

" I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother. "

" I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it. "

" 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. "

" When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity. "

" Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there. "

" I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. "

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

First

Fight

" I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself. "

" Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over. "

" Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street. "

" Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound. "

" We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

Life

Just

" It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it. "

" For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life. "

" I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it. "

" I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

You

Parents

" Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.' "