Marvin Hagler Quotes

• You know, I think I had a great career; there’s not much I think I’d do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn’t get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

  Marvin Hagler

• You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

  Marvin Hagler

• Well, you can’t trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

  Marvin Hagler

• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Marvin Hagler

• The situation right after the fight wasn’t too good; I believe I’m still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you’ve won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.

  Marvin Hagler

• Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

  Marvin Hagler

• People still look at me as the champion and that’s very important to me.

  Marvin Hagler

• Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you’re paying attention and studying your art.

  Marvin Hagler

• In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

  Marvin Hagler

• Even though the outcome wasn’t the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

  Marvin Hagler

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Birth:	23rd May, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Boxer

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