Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

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.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.