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Sugar Ray Robinson Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“The toughest fight I had out of the ring was when my mother found out that I was fighting.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson Interview(1952)
Tagged: Boxing, Fighting, mothers
“As a champion, I felt I’d love to live like one. And I had a ball, I really did. I wouldn’t change a thing.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson on Life With Linkletter
Tagged: champions, Boxing
“Richard Rodgers got me started. He heard me one day and he couldn't believe I never had any voice training. My teacher, Jaharal Hall, tells me I've got to sing like I fight—smooth, no apparent effort.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, The Longest Day Of Sugar Ray: A Boxing Great Becomes A Sideshow Freak
Tagged: Singing, Boxing
“I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson
Tagged: Positivity, Negativity
“You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, Body & Soul
Tagged: Boxing, Instinct
“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, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
Tagged: Boxing, rhythm
“I ain't never liked violence.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, The Legality of Boxing
Tagged: Boxing, Violence
“My business is hurting people.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Tagged: Boxing, Brutality
“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, Extreme sports
Tagged: inspiration, Defeat
“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.”
— Sugar Ray Robinson, I Love Myself: Over 1,700 Words of Wisdom to Inspire You to Achieve Greatness in Your Life
Tagged: Heroism, Self-Esteem
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