“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one 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
“He boxed as though he were playing the violin.”
— Sportswriter Barney Nagler
“Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.”
— Boxing historian Bert Sugar
“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