Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the p...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue coll...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I want to be great, something special.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about curre...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to b...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way y...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would r...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at time...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gav...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have y...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I&...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-m...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD at times it becomes too invasive.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mi...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. The...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I d...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For heal...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants t...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There'...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Su...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-ma...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you'v...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON I ain't never liked violence.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON My business is hurting people.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON You always say "I'll quit when I start to slide," and then one morning you wake up and realize you'v...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and r...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just ...
REBECCA SUGAR Whoever I pick as my apprentice, has gotta fit in at my company.
ALAN SUGAR The money coming into the game [football] is incredible. But it is just the prune-juice effect - it ...
ALAN SUGAR I don't think too many people would want my job. I'm a bit of a nutter.
ALAN SUGAR You're a lightweight. You're fired.
ALAN SUGAR As part of this agreement we will sell significant volumes of this new product in the financial year...
ALAN SUGAR Although we anticipate a good performance in the current financial year, shareholders should not exp...
ALAN SUGAR Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
ALAN SUGAR I gotta tell ya, you're fired!
ALAN SUGAR The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't ...
ALAN SUGAR Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody mi...
ALAN SUGAR I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.
ALAN SUGAR Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a...
ALAN SUGAR I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire ...
ALAN SUGAR You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't...
ALAN SUGAR I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mea...
ALAN SUGAR My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
ALAN SUGAR There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of thing...
ALAN SUGAR I am tired of hustling.
ALAN SUGAR The heavyweight division is on the cusp of being called off for lack of interest. A hundred years ag...
BERT SUGAR They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR The heavyweight division is on the cusp of being called off for lack of interest, ... A hundred year...
BERT SUGAR There's a lot of money to be made by somebody, but I don't know who that somebody would be.
BERT SUGAR If Rahman walked down street in his gloves and boxing trunks, they'd have a problem recognizing him.
BERT SUGAR Boxing promoters, for all the bad [things] you say about them, have an eye for talent,
BERT SUGAR He had landed the 'thunder and lightning', but to no avail...Ingo was a very good boxer, but I won't...
BERT SUGAR Ray Lewis would be a hell of a heavyweight.
BERT SUGAR It is a terrible division.
BERT SUGAR Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't underst...
ALAN SUGAR I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the d...
ALAN SUGAR Greg Page ... was one of the greatest amateurs I ever saw, and that's 40 years of watching. But I pu...
BERT SUGAR If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition ...
ALAN SUGAR You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
ALAN SUGAR Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one ...
ALAN SUGAR I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
ALAN SUGAR In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a tit...
ALAN SUGAR My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring ...
ALAN SUGAR There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Or...
ALAN SUGAR You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to m...
ALAN SUGAR I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one...
ALAN SUGAR When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
ALAN SUGAR Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
ALAN SUGAR I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
ALAN SUGAR The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.
ALAN SUGAR Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
ALAN SUGAR Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
ALAN SUGAR I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from
ALAN SUGAR We have incurred tremendous damage.
RON SUGAR I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work ...
KAWHI LEONARD There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape j...
LEONARD SLATKIN I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
LEONARD LAUDER That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual...
LEONARD SUSSKIND During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
LEONARD ORR We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Gol...
KAWHI LEONARD To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I'...
LEONARD NIMOY Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan...
LEONARD MLODINOW My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w...
LEONARD NIMOY When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are t...
LEONARD MLODINOW If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
LEONARD RAVENHILL It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...
ELMORE LEONARD Live Long and Prosper
LEONARD NIMOY If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. An...
LEONARD NIMOY I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once ...
LEONARD NIMOY I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
LEONARD NIMOY Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD “The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY