Roberto Duran Samaniego Quotes

• The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

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• Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I really feel that if it wasn’t for the accident, I’d 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.

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

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• I was born to be champion of the world.

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• 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.

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• If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

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• Right now, it’s very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it’s very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah’s a good fighter as well.

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• Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.

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• 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.

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• I’m not God – but I am something similar.

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• 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.

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• There is only one legend. That’s me.

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Roberto Duran Samaniego (16)

Birth:	16th June, 1951
Nationality:	Panamanian
Profession:	Boxer

About

Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired Panamanian professional boxer, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career.

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• 2003 - Peter Stone
• 2004 - Lee Loevinger
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