Quotes About Sugar Ray Robinson

#1. That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

Muhammad Ali

#2. I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#3. I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen

Dave Gorman

#4. I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.

Marvin Hagler

#5. Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

Dick Schaap

#6. Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#7. I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

George Clinton

#8. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#9. The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

Jake LaMotta

#10. Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#11. I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

Jake LaMotta

#12. to be a champ you have to beleive in yourself when nobodyelse will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#13. I ain't never liked violence.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#14. Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#15. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

Max Lucado

#16. I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.

Kanye West

#17. Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#18. My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.

Aldous Huxley

#19. To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#20. You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#21. I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

Zoe Kazan

#22. Rhythm is everything in boxing ...

Sugar Ray Robinson

#23. You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#24. My business is hurting people.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#25. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

Jane Wells

#26. Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#27. Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Sugar Ray Robinson