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.
Sugar Ray Leonard

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

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
Sugar Ray Leonard

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
Sugar Ray Leonard

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.
Sugar Ray Leonard

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

It's hard to talk about yourself.
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

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

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

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

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
Sugar Ray Leonard

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.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
Sugar Ray Leonard

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.
Sugar Ray Leonard