Quotes by Panamanian authors

"The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"There is only one legend. That's me"

"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"

"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"

"I was born to be champion of the world"

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

"I'm not God - but I am something similar"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off"

"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city"

"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models"

"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs"

"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened"

"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama"

"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation"

"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being"

"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market"

"I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band"

"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez"

"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985"

"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds"

"But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood"