To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
From Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
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 never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
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'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.
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