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

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

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

- Sugar Ray Robinson

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

- Sugar Ray Robinson

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Hurting people is my business.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

My business is hurting people.

- Sugar Ray Robinson

I ain't never liked violence.

- Sugar Ray Robinson