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I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
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When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, What do you want to be? I think he was expecting me to say, A champion. I said, I want to be special. I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids
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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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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
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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.
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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.
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I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
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I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
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I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.
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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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