Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

No one should ever bring my muscular build up and think it is going to have something to do with my output in the fight.

If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.

I think I'm one of the fastest and strongest lightweights out there.

I don't want to talk trash about somebody: I want to prove it inside the cage.

When I walked down the ramp and stood in the ring, I made other big guys look small.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.