Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

I paid attention how to land a big shot, like Oscar De La Hoya with the left hook.

The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most.

I think when I fight, I make it exciting. I like to excite the fans.

I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Sport has bercome entertainment....actors play to the crowd; players play to their teammates

Anyone who has seen my fights knows I'm going to put on an exciting performance and give you your money's worth.

To me, nothing is more fun than being in that ring. That ring is just my heart; it's my passion.

Some shots people won't think are right but I want to give the crowd a good show and get new people into the sport.

My jiu-jitsu style is definitely not the most entertaining one, so I'd rather do boxing and entertain the fans a little more.

For me personally, I'm going to continue to do what I do in the ring.

I'm an entertaining fighter.

I want to go out there and be clean in my performances and showcase great knockouts.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

We're not getting judged or rated by just our fighting ability. People want to watch guys who are flamboyant and have something to say, and that's just the nature of the fight game and the game we're in. I get it.

I want to go out there and try as hard as I can to be the best in that ring. And for me, that doesn't mean cutting flips and cartwheels and not selling punches.

Johnny Valentine's the one who said, 'I can't make them believe that wrestling is real, but I can make them believe I'm real.' It would take him forever because he was just stinkingly boring for 30 minutes of the 40-minute match, but he would let people hit him as hard as they could, and he would hit people as hard as he could.

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

I paid attention to how Floyd Mayweather adapts.

In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.

I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

There are lots of reasons people come to Beyonce shows. There's the music, her dancing; all in all a bedazzling show. She's a great performer and singer.

We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.

I really like Pete Dunne. His grittiness and aggressiveness is something I want to learn from and something I wish I could be a little more of in the ring.