Roberto Duran famous quotes

03-28-2025

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
-- Roberto Duran

#Spring #Fighting #Animal
I was born to be champion of the world
-- Roberto Duran

#Champion #World #Born
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
-- Roberto Duran

#Motivational Sports #Boxing #Guy
I'm not God, but I am something similar.
-- Roberto Duran

#Sports #Motivational Sports
Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
-- Roberto Duran

#Kill Me #Wanted #Rings
I really feel that if it wasnt for the accident, Id still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.
-- Roberto Duran

#Fighting #Doctors #Sound
I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
-- Roberto Duran

#Crazy #Men #Bed
I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
-- Roberto Duran

#Fighting #Fighter #Born
The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.
-- Roberto Duran

#Wind
There is only one legend. That's me
-- Roberto Duran

#Legends
Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
-- Roberto Duran

#Style #Wheels #Fighter
I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.
-- Roberto Duran

#Thank You #Heart #America
The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
-- Roberto Duran

#Fighting #World #Boxers
If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather
-- Roberto Duran

#Fighting #Would Be #Want
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters
-- Roberto Duran

#Wise #Cuba #Fighter
De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa
-- Roberto Duran

#Singing #Salsa #Should
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody
-- Roberto Duran

#White #Black #Legends
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it
-- Roberto Duran

#Mother #Horse #Home
Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters
-- Roberto Duran

#Fighting #Way #Fighter
I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk
-- Roberto Duran

#Thinking #Names #Laughing

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