Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

Athletics is in my blood.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

Tennis has given me soul.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get.

I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.

I live to be in these matches.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

I love my job. I go to fight because this is me.

You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

Taking punches to the face at six in the morning, it's funny to hear that but, like, I'm grateful that I'm capable to do that.

Wrestling will always be a part of me and a part of my life. I just love it too much.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

People don't get it. Martial arts is my life.

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.

I am all athlete, and that's important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.