Top 44 Quotes About Roberto Duran
#1. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse
Joel Klein
#2. The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.
Marvin Hagler
#3. There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
Tyson Fury
#4. No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#5. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#6. Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran
#7. If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
Roberto Duran
#10. I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.
Roberto Duran
#12. The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.
Deepak Chopra
#13. I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.
Carli Lloyd
#14. Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.
Roberto Duran
#15. He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
Katherine Paterson
#16. Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.
Roberto Duran
#17. A full heart has more room than an empty one.
John Kramer
#18. I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
Roberto Duran
#19. Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
Roberto Duran
#20. The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.
Sarah Addison Allen
#21. Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.
Roberto Duran
#22. I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.
Roberto Duran
#23. Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
Roberto Duran
#25. Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#26. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
#27. The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
Roberto Duran
#28. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#30. Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran
#31. I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
Roberto Duran
#32. I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
Ruth Negga
#33. Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
William Safire
#34. I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.
Roberto Duran
#35. I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
Roberto Duran
#37. In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
#38. Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
Roberto Duran
#39. De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.
Roberto Duran
#40. Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.
Roberto Duran
#41. I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.
Romany Malco
