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Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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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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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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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.
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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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I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.
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I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
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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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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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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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Spread your love and fly.
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I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
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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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