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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.
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When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
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I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.
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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
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