Sugar Ray Leonard

I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I realized my toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let these 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. I feel better in my skin now.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wouldn’t change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

Sugar Ray Leonard