Classic Duran Quotes

that is great stuff....thanks. hands of stone...miss him fighting

 

Looking forward to his movie coming out next year, should be good. De Niro is playing Arcel.

 

His refusal to give Leanard credit with that huge grin in 30 for 30 had me rolling. Hes there shooting pool like a regular joe and Ray is there looking out of place just fuming over it.

Duran is a legendary person. let alone boxer. hes been trolling ray since the 80s with this ****

 

His win over Leonard is one of the very best of all time. A true great of the sport.

 

I don't know if people are aware of this story, but after boxing De Jesus became a drug addict and went to jail for murder. While in jail he got HIV and near the end of his life they let him out to die. When Duran found out about it he went to Puerto Rico with his daughter and when he saw him he went to him picked him up out of his bed and hugged and kissed him, he also told his daughter to kiss him too. Now this was at the time that when someone had HIV nobody even wanted to go near them, because they weren't 100% how it was transmitted. De Jesus died about a month later.

This story was told by Jose Torres who witnessed it and later said that moment cemented Duran's legacy in PR forever.

So for all his machismo in the ring they guy was just as much a legend outside of the ring as he was inside.

 

Some of my faves

'That name, "Manos de Piedra", is true, Hands of Stone. Every punch, and I'm not exaggerating, every punch that he hit me with, from the body to the head, felt like bricks, stone, rocks. He knocked my teeth back. My front, my first 3 or 4 teeth, he knocked them back because he was just so possessed. He was a demon.'

'Roberto Duran has been doing it his way, for the most part, since the street-urchin days when he surfaced as the resident roughneck of Panama City. Duran grew up in Chorrillo, a windblown slum of narrow streets and tumbledown two-story houses that lies on the east side of the mouth of the Panama C****, across from Fort Amador. He is one of eight children. Roberto's father deserted his mother before he was born. As a youngster, with a sack slung over his shoulder. Duran used to swim the two miles to Fort Amador for daily raids on its bounteous mango trees. He would climb the trees, load the sack with the fruit and swim the two miles back. One day he almost drowned. Three hundred yards from the shore, encumbered by a particularly splendid harvest, he started to sink. "About three of us grabbed him and dragged him to shore," says Ruben Wallace, a friend of Roberto's. "He wouldn't let go of that damn sack."

In his autobiography The Big Fight, Leonard told how, when the final bell rang, he approached his foe to shake hands. With a sneer, Duran walked away instead, a simple "f--k you" his only reply.

'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.'

'Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.'

 

There's a photo of this. I posted it a few weeks ago in the "boxers who became friends" thread in the classic board.

http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/esteben-de-jesus-Duran-HOSPITAL.jpg

 

Cool. :good

 

what he said about froid was hilarious. you cant diss a true legend

 

classy:yep

 

Carlos Palomino told the story of what happened before his fight with Duran at Madison Square Garden.

He had heard all of the stories of Duran being an animal at weigh-ins and intimidating all his opponents, sometimes attacking them and having to be held back. Palomino said he was psyched up and ready for anything Duran might pull, he was poised to cut loose on Duran the minute he tried anything, wasn't going to let Duran get the upper hand on him.

So as soon as they step off the scales, Duran comes over all smiles and asks for Carlos' autograph for his son, saying Palomino was his son's favorite fighter and it would mean so much to him. Got the autograph and thanked him profusely.

Carlos said it was like puncturing a balloon, he was set to explode and Duran deflated him.

Duran was a master at mental warfare. That's something that gets way overlooked in mythical matchups. You can't watch Youtube and get a sense for the mental game.

 

Does anyone know what Duran is worth these days??