Quotes from Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

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'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.

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

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.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

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

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

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

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.

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.

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