QUOTES

"There's only one legend. That's me."
-- Roberto Duran

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

"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

"My experience won this fight…. I knew I was in control. I was not scared. He was not hitting me with anything that was hurting me. "
-- Roberto Duran after defeating P.J. Goosen on August 12, 2000

"I realized that my body can give me so much more."
-- Roberto Duran, on his decision to continue fighting